peterjohnscott wrote: > Since ....(?) all the MSC SwingBridges are worked by a travelling team > of operators - rather than have Bridge Operators 'in residence' on a > shift basis. So now you can look at the road bridge in StocktonBrook, > say, and see the window open - rush to the ...shop, get back to the > car and across the bridge just in time to avoid the place gumming-up > for half an hour ... :-) > > Compliments of the Season > Peter Scott
(?) ...around the mid 1990's? I assume that it was from this date that the locks above Latchford were also operated by a team of travelling bods. Certainly on all our passages of the MSC, this has been the case. We were told that the travelling crew were self-employed and that it had not long been the case. In July 1995 we passed under the Barton Swing Aqueduct at 07:45, it was not approaching HW and there were no commercial craft about, so we assumed it was left open to the MSC overnight during this period. http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T95_Imag/95_2/95b23.jpg It is not often that the Bridgewater and MSC are in operation at the same time at Barton Swing Aqueduct ;-) http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T02_Imag/02.24.7/DSCN6043.JPG -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
