On 2 Oct 2007, at 10:23, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> "rigdent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Our record for a lock is 6 minutes and that was with a good crew I
>> cant see how one could cut that in half .
>
> We used to be able to do Farmers Bridge, bottom gate closing to  
> bottom gate closing, in
> about three minutes per lock. But that was before BW sawed off the  
> ends of the balance
> beams lest any passing cyclists concuss themselves.

But shirley that means it's not so far to walk to operate the gate :-)

Baz

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