"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. If you slow a machine down by a factor of nearly seven, and increase the demand for its use, no surprise if you get queues eh? Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
