Brian wrote: > "Adrian Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> "Richard Fairhurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> 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.>
Doesn't matter - the time quoted was an average, so for every lock they left open and with the paddles up, they'd find another against them with the far gates & paddles open. Whether it's true or not is another matter :-)
