Have just heard about the Great Ouse train derailment - in the early hours of Friday morning, an aggregate train derailed on a bridge over the river just above Ely, leaving sand and gravel in the navigation channel, the bridge partly destroyed and two wagons hanging upside down over the river.
It will be necessary to construct a mile of road to the site before they can begin to make it safe. Present estimates are that it will take until the second or third week of August before the river can reopen to navigation. This is, of course, getting into the period during which the workers boats need to be able to navigate up river to St Ives to rig the National. It's not being a good year for waterways events! Link to pdf with pix of the scene here: <http://tinyurl.com/24nlqu> –– All the best Bruce "Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
