Martin Clark wrote: > John Slee wrote... >> --- In [email protected], Bruce >> Napier <br...@...> wrote: >>> >>> Derek on Gypsy Rover reckons Bridge 1 on the Coventry is the >>> smallest on the system >> We wrote the same on our Epiphany Blog on 16th February - there's a >> picture as we went through the bridge: see >> >> http://nbepiphany.co.uk/jcms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i >> d=237:the-back-story&catid=44:journey-blogs&Itemid=119 >> > Looking at the photo of your boat "squeezing" through the bridge I > think it is not at all clear that it is the smallest bridge! Why - > you've still got your chimney up and a luggage box on the roof, with > plenty of room to spare! > > It will feel small because of not having a towpath, but it doesn't > look particularly narrow when you compare with some of the lock tail > bridges on the Peak Forest, Huddersfield or other narrow canals. It > looks low enough for the steerer to have to duck but there are plenty > of other bridges where that is also true. For instance, gang planks > on roofs often scrape the top of the new bridge at Old Bank in > Slaithwaite. Isn't the bridge on the Bumble Hole Arm pretty low? > (although not particularly narrow) (or am I thinking of another one > nearby?)
Well it is the lowest on the BCN, http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T00_Imag/00.6.7/Dud2_28.jpg apart from the Tipton end gauge for the Dudley Tunnel :-) Now that Ramsey Hollow Bridge on the 40 Foot (Middle Level) has been raised, the lowest bridge on the connected navigable canals, that actually goes somewhere is Exhibition Bridge on the Old River Nene (Middle Level), below Lodes End Lock, because we have been under all the other low bridges (that go anywhere, ie not into basins, etc) and this is the only one we had this do this to get under ;-) http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T01_Imag/fens01/01.25.7/mlexhibbr.jpg http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T01_Imag/fens01/01.25.7/Dscn3289.jpg This is it on a *good* day. It is pointless talking about small, "narrow" bridges, as a narrowboat will go through them :-) The lowest bridge on the Irish navigable waterways (as in past of the connected system) is Pluckerstown Bridge on the Grand Supply (Milltown Feeder). http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T07_Imag/Autumn07a/Pict3034.jpg Unless you credit the N4 Cloonart Bridge on the Rinn River as being part of the navigable system :-) http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T07_Imag/16_07_07/Dsc02765.jpg Neil Arlidge NB Earnest - Out of it. Wildernii Mini Me - Now back to being wheely good fun. Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
