[canals-list] Re: What a contrast

[Brian]

"Adrian Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
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> "Richard Fairhurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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>>But older and wiser WW heads than me argue that the problems would be 
>>solved at Derwent
>>Mouth and Kegworth Deep if BW were to just put the paddles back to their 
>>non-messed-
>>around state.
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> I just finished re-reading "Voyage Into England" (published in the
> 1960s).  Interviews in it with working boaters say that their expected
> time then to pass a lock was about three minutes.
>
> It seems now that the average expected time is about 20 minutes.
>
But they use to leave the gates open and the paddles up when they left the 
locks, so if they were lucky enough to find a lock in their favour the only 
time they spent in the lock was going up or down.>
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