[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Ah, but the problem is you're trying the wrong route. Any fule kno >> > that the proposed canal goes from Aylesbury to Abingdon (but this one >> > can't remember its name - "Vale of something", maybe even of >> > Aylesbury? "something West something"? Argh). >> Western Junction Canal. >> Splendid idea for a canal. 7ft beam, of course (ducks and runs). > >Aylesbury ducks, presuably? > >Seriously, it has been suggested that the reason the Aylesbury Arm was built >narrow was because it was seen as the first part of the Western Junction, >which was proposed as a link to the narrow-beam Wilts & Berks at Abingdon (*). >But I'm not sure what evidence there is for this. Anyone know? > >Martin > >(*) which in turn may have been influenced by the narrow-beam Somersetshire >Coal Canal
I would like it known that I have *never* advocated widening the Aylesbury arm. Although, of course, it should have been built broad in the first place, as should the Northampton ... Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
