Pollington Lock , Aire and Calder Navigation to Thorne, Stainforth and Keadby Navigation, South Yorkshire
Today we have travelled on 3 waterways, including the New Junction Canal (built 1905) which is 5.5 miles long and follows a completely straight line, broken only by swing and lift bridges and one lock, with a swing bridge in the middle of it. Tall foreboding guillotine gates over aqueducts at each end, isolate the canal in times of flood. At the end of the 'new' canal, we turned sharp left and moved down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal, again wide water passing through ex coal mining areas, and on to Thorne where we are currently moored within Stanilands Marina for the next 2 nights.
Our passage down on to the river Trent from Keadby Lock is booked for 6am on Thursday!
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