colin wareing wrote: > For anyone up north as is interested, Since last Thursday > afternoon the Cheshire ring has been closed to the east of > Manchester due to a tail gate on Lock 10 of the Ashton having > been damaged. The damage is very low down on one of the gates > so how it happened is a bit of a mystery. We've been hanging > around on a nice mooring at Piccadilly village in Manchester > in the hope that it would be fixed, but a walk up on Tuesday > afternoon to lock 10 revealed no obvious sign of progress so > we're going back down the Rochdale nine. After giving the > North West Wrgies a lift paper chasing on Sat we're going to > do the ring the other way around in the hope the Ashton will > be open again by October.
According to Waterscape on 5 July "work has commenced to remove the damaged tailgate". So has the gate now been removed? The damage was apparently caused by a "boat collision incident", and could take up to 3 weeks to repair. David Mack
