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The Locks, Startops End (Marsworth, Buckinghamshire)
When the canal was heavily used during Victorian times there was a major problem with the supply of water, The original locks (for instance the one on the left of the picture) took two narrowboats at a time and this wasted water when only one narrowboat passed through, The solution was to build extra parallel half-width locks, which only took one narrowboat at a time. Where the lock was immediately adjacent to a bridge the bridge had to be extended with an additional arch. After a comparatively short time the scheme was abandoned, and now all the narrow locks have been filled in, apart from one which acts as a dry dock at Tring Summit. This picture shows the narrow lock at Startops End after it had been closed for traffic but before it was filled in.
The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system. Its main line starts in London and ends in Birmingham, stretching for 137 miles (220 km) with 166 locks.[1] It has arms to places including Leicester, Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover and Northampton.[2]
The Grand Union Canal was also the original name for part of what is now part of the Leicester Line of the modern Grand Union: this latter is now generally referred to as the Old Grand Union Canal in order to avoid ambiguity.
With competition from the railways having taken a large share of traffic in the second half of the 19th century, improvements in roads and vehicle technology in the early part of the 20th century meant that the lorry was also becoming a threat to the canals. Tolls had been reduced to compete with the railways, but there was little scope for further reduction. The Regent's Canal and the Grand Junction Canal agreed that amalgamation and modernisation were the only way to remain competitive.
The Grand Union Canal in its current form came into being on 1 January 1929, and was further extended in 1932. It was formed from the amalgamation of several different canals, and at 286.3 miles (461 km) is by far the longest canal in the UK:
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076 - Onto the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal on our Narrowboat.
In this vlog we continue south on the Grand Union Canal and turn up the Aylesbury Arm at Marsworth Junction.
We navigate two staircase locks with out the assistance of a lock keeper and we have another first as George our Springer Spaniel decides to cross the top of the lock gates on his own.
Also it is still ridiculously hot. Not sure if we mentioned that.
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Tring Station 1990's having fun
1990 and my friends and I were all lunatics, nothing must has changed, there's a brilliant interview with an old boy..
Snowy Berkhamsted
We were moored heavily aground, so moved through the snow to get to a better mooring!
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Trains at Berkhamsted, WCML | 22/07/17
A very busy day down at Berkhamsted station on the WCML on a Saturday afternoon. I will be traveling on Virgin Trains first class from Euston to Manchester, i will try to film as much as possible
Berkhamsted Station info:
Berkhamsted railway station is in the town of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. It is located just beside Berkhamsted Castle, overlooking the Grand Junction Canal. The station is 28 miles (45 km) north west of London Euston on the West Coast Main Line. London Midland operates services to London, Northampton and many other destinations.
There are 4 platforms of 12-car length on both the fast and slow lines. The platforms are arranged around a central island and two side platforms. The station is relatively unusual on the route in that most of the original buildings have been retained.
History:
The present Berkhamsted station dates from 1875, and is located on the Lower King's road on the junction with Brownlow Road. The original station building, opened in 1838, was located approximately 330 feet (100 m) south-east of the present structure, near the bridge onto Castle Street. It was designed in an Elizabethan style of architecture with a brick gabled booking hall. The building was replaced by a new station with additional sidings in 1875 when the railway was widened, the sidings replacing an earlier goods yard near Gravel Path. In 1887, the fastest train would depart at 08:54 and arrive at London Euston at 09:35, with one stop at Willesden Junction, a 41-minute journey.
During the building of the London and Birmingham Railway (the L&BR, today's West Coast Main Line) in the 1830s, Berkhamsted was for a few years a centre of railway construction. The armies of navvies, bricklayers and miners brought in from the English Midlands, Ireland, London and the North of England led to overcrowding in Berkhamsted and the rowdy behaviour of the labourers was said to have offended the genteel townsfolk. Seven young men aged 18–26 were killed while working on the Berkhamsted section of the railway.[1]
Before construction work on the Berkhamsted section of the L&BR began, the project was subject to public protest. Many landowners and turnpike trustees in Hertfordshire were opposed to the new railway line, and protest meetings were held at the King's Arms Hotel in Berkhamsted. Although local opposition to the iron horse was led by noblemen such as the Earls of Essex, Clarendon and Brownlow, the railway line received Royal Assent in 1833.
Led by chief engineer Robert Stephenson, works commenced in 1834 to build a high railway embankment on top of the ruined barbican and moat of Berkhamsted Castle. The brick embankment was built on deep foundations using earth taken from the Sunnyside cutting a mile further south. Once railway tracks were laid, it was possible to use a steam locomotive to move earth and bricks: the Harvey Coombe (or Harvey Combe) was brought up from London by barge on the Grand Junction Canal to assist construction work, and was assembled at Pix Farm in Bourne End. When this locomotive began running on the line works, it was the first time any local people had seen a railway engine.
The L&BR line opened in 1837, with trains running between London and Boxmoor in July, with service extended to Tring in October of that year. The first passenger train passed through Berkhamsted on 16 October 1837, 59 minutes after leaving London.
Services:
At Berkhamsted, Monday to Saturdays there are 4 trains per hour southbound to London Euston. There are two trains an hour north to Tring, along with two to Milton Keynes Central, one of which is operated by Southern. There is also an hourly service to Northampton. Berkhamsted is also served by an hourly cross-London service operated by Southern which runs via the West London Line to Clapham Junction and South Croydon.
On Monday-Friday there is one train to and from Crewe and some services to/from Crewe on Sundays.
On Sundays there are hourly services towards Milton Keynes, Tring and Northampton, and three an hour towards London Euston.
Anglers retreat music, marsworth, kmd
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BLISWORTH ARM WINDING HOLE,GAYTON MARINA ONTO GRAND UNION NORTH (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)
Take a journey down the Blisworth Arm from Rothershorpe lockhouse down past Gayton Marina and onto the Grand Union north
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Narrowboat Living vlogs - We accidentally make a documentary at Wrenbury on the Llangollen Canal
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Narrowboat Potteries. We made a documentary. A small fact filled journey on the Llangollen Canal. We travel from Wrenbury, through the lift bridge past Bromac Nursery to Thomasons Winding Hole.
Tom takes up ballet when winding the boat.
We meet two of our neighbours from Swanley Bridge Marina.
Wrenbury is a village in the civil parish of Wrenbury cum Frith, the unitary authority of Cheshire East, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies on the River Weaver, around 8.5 miles south-west of Crewe.
The civil parish of Wrenbury cum Frith covers the village of Wrenbury and the small settlements of Gaunton's Bank, Pinsley Green, Porter's Hill, Smeaton Wood, Wrenbury Heath and Wrenburywood. It has a total population of around 1,100, being measured at the 2011 Census as 1,18
The village is listed in the Domesday Book as Wareneberie,[2] and became Wrennebury in 1230. The name is said to mean old forest inhabited by wrens.[3] Wrenbury formed part of the extensive lands of William Malbank (also William Malbedeng), who owned much of the Nantwich hundred.[2]
As a chapel attached to St Mary's Church, Acton, Wrenbury was included in the lands donated to the Cistercian Combermere Abbey in around 1180, shortly after the abbey's 1133 foundation by Hugh Malbank, second Baron of Nantwich.[4] In 1539, after the Dissolution, the land was granted to George Cotton,[4] and the Cotton family remained important local landowners for centuries.[5]
A free school by the church was endowed by Ralph Buckley in 1605.[6]
Thomasons Bridge Winding Hole is a minor waterways place on the Shropshire Union Canal (Llangollen Canal - Main Line) between Marbury Lock No 10 (Marbury village half a mile south) (1 mile and ½ furlongs to the west) and Wrenbury Lift Bridge No 20 (Wrenbury village a quarter of a mile southeast) (7½ furlongs to the east).
The nearest place in the direction of Marbury Lock No 10 is Church Bridge No 23; 1 mile and ½ furlongs away.
The nearest place in the direction of Wrenbury Lift Bridge No 20 is Thomasons Bridge No 22; 1 furlong away.
Our narrowboat experience cruising the cut. John & Tom (married couple) and Ethel (adopted daughter).
John, Tom & Ethel.
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