On 1 Oct 2007, at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The two sets of locks further south on the Coventry do seem to also
> involve queueing at times, but I think that's at least partly to do
> with them being very slow to fill. Did they ever have top gate
> paddles?
>
Glascote bottom has been quite exceptionally slow this year. It started
with a problem with the bottom cill giving way, and BW attempted to
fix it over 3 stoppages. It's still leaking away, and its top paddle
culverts appeared to be partly blocked when we came through the other
day.
It took us about an hour to do the two locks, having been third in the
queue when we arrived at the top. Record time seems to be six hours
during the Bank Holiday weekends.
Main knack to getting the best time - don't draw the bottom paddles of
the top lock before the bottom lock is full and open, so that less
water has to be passed through it before it makes a level. That way,
the bottom lock was taking about 10 minutes to fill, as opposed to 20
if you emptied the top lock into it. But it was quite a challenge to
persuade people of this as the queues built up above and below.
––
All the best
Bruce
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of
moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise'
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