Gone are the days when High bridge near Ryders Green was one of the lowest. Some on the Caldon in Stoke are pretty low - and have mwtal beams, while the one near the Holly Bush is higher than it was but. My narrowest would be on the Stratford - there are a couple of contenders though the one narrow we dislike the most is the one already mentioned (B36 T&M) which is narrowed further by those chunks of metal designed to scrape at around gunnel level. Of course when rivers rise bridges like Nel Bridge get to be very low and once we had to tie to two lampposts in Guildford as we could not fit under the bridge in the middle of the town after a locky further up had opened the weir sluices.
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Neil Arlidge <[email protected]> wrote: From: Neil Arlidge <[email protected]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Re: Smallest bridge on the system To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 7:36 PM Martin Clark wrote: > John Slee wrote... >> --- In canals-list@ yahoogroups. com, 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.tuesdayn ightclub. 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.tuesdayn ightclub. co.uk/T01_ Imag/fens01/ 01.25.7/mlexhibb r.jpg http://www.tuesdayn ightclub. 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.tuesdayn ightclub. 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.tuesdayn ightclub. 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.tuesdayn ightclub. co.uk/tour. html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
