Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Wednesday 10th June 2009




Anderton Lift - Bottom to Top




The day started wet but dried off enough for us to have a trip upstream to have a look at the work being carried out on Vale Royal Locks. Short stop at Northwich for shopping in M&S.

Returned back downstream to Anderton Lift after lunch for our trip up. We had to wait until 4pm before we could get a slot.

The operator had trouble shutting the bottom guillotine gate on the caisson which delayed things a little. Once the lift started we had a very gentle ascent, whereas the other caisson coming down seemed very jerky.

1 comment:

Julian said...

Back behind my desk again and still not jealous.......as my nose hits the monitor.
Thanks for the bouncing balls mention, and I will pass on the mention of the Chester Tesco.
J