Falkirk Wheel
This series of photographs is of the Falkirk wheel or more accurately, a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. I managed to take these in between some prolonged rain showers. The thing that struck me is the lift does clunk and bang a bit as it rotates with a canal boat in each water trough, I guess the noises are magnified by the extensive steel plating used in construction. Conversely, the Anderton Boat lift in Cheshire, England lifts vertically and is relatively quiet. Nevertheless, it is an impressive piece of engineering and first ran in 2002.
Falkirk Wheel
This series of photographs is of the Falkirk wheel or more accurately, a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. I managed to take these in between some prolonged rain showers. The thing that struck me is the lift does clunk and bang a bit as it rotates with a canal boat in each water trough, I guess the noises are magnified by the extensive steel plating used in construction. Conversely, the Anderton Boat lift in Cheshire, England lifts vertically and is relatively quiet. Nevertheless, it is an impressive piece of engineering and first ran in 2002.