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Not quite sure where to put these! Seen on the Canal close to Stroud, Gloucestershire

Thanks for posting Pete.

This is stuff close to my heart as I am a volunteer on one of the locks of Shakespeare's Avon, not a million miles away from Stroud.

Will try to post some of the Avon when I can.

Neil. (v1230nm)

Great stuff Pete this is the Stroudwater Navigation which is part of the Cotswold Canals? It is currently under restoration and eventually becomes the Thames & Severn Canal.
On my first visit earlier this year they were about to rebuild a bridge that takes a working railway line across the canal, we then went along part of the disused Thames & Severn including the one portal of Sapperton tunnel, see below, also one of the deep locks at a village called Siddington, my friend gives you an idea of just how deep these locks are.

Jeremy

We cycled a long the canal in the Severn direction. At one point the canal goes under a main railway line and appears to be in little more than a large pipe?

essexpete wrote:We cycled a long the canal in the Severn direction. At one point the canal goes under a main railway line and appears to be in little more than a large pipe?

Pete; that's where the new bridge is going in, it's by a large winding point in the canal and just after St Cyrs church as you head towards the Severn.

Jeremy

I have been doing some more canal walking with friends, this time the restored section of the Chesterfield Canal not far from Worksop, there is a flight of staircase locks which is well worth a look if you like that sort of thing, what was also of interest to me was these 'hedgerow hero's' that I came across next to the one section. They looked very forlorn and like they had been there for some considerable time.

Jeremy

Looks like an MF track shovel with MF 220 hoe, MF 35 and a Nuffield 4/60?

essexpete wrote:Looks like an MF track shovel with MF 220 hoe, MF 35 and a Nuffield 4/60?

Think you are correct there Pete.

Jeremy