Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought the limit was 12ft on the GU but don't know where > the pinch > > point that makes it less than 14ft is, or are all the bridges 12ft? > > I'd assumed they (and the boat mentioned above) were 14ft > but I've not > > tried passing in one to test this ;-) Steve NB Bream
Mike Askin added: > This makes interesting reading: > > http://www.waterwaysguides.co.uk/updates/gu-dimen.htm My recollection (though I don't have the references to hand) is that following the GU upgrading between Braunston and Sampson Road, the limiting width was a bridge in Tyseley or Small Heath, not far short of the terminus of the wide-boat route. I think this was about 13 ft. I wonder why it was not widened at the same time. The often-quoted 12ft 6ins figure is more likely to be based on the width of the two boats built to trial the upgraded route. I have also read somewhere that the bridge two or three locks down from the top of the Hatton flight is less than 14ft, although this was reconstructed as part of the widening (presumably because the new locks are not on the same alignment as the old route), and that narrow boats which worked the flight breasted up would single out for this bridge. However the Waterways Guides reference suggests you can do the whole flight breasted. David Mack
