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The Peterborough Lift Lock is a boat lift located on the Trent Canal in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and is Lock 21 on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
For many years, the lock's dual lifts were the highest hydraulic boat lifts in the world, raising boats 65 ft (20 m).
The first concrete to be laid on the Panama Canal was at the Gatun Locks near Colón, Panama in August 1909. It took four years to complete the canal's 12 original locks.
Day 17, Panama Canal:
The viewing point at the front of the Columbus was packed with people as we passed through the first set of three locks raising the ship up.
A quick drive down to Latchford Locks in Warrington to catch the last of the sunset. The sun was setting in this direction but all the colour was the other way although I did't really see a composition I liked.
Seen from a cruise ship, the bulk carrier Kouju Lily exits Gatún Lake via the series of three historic Gatún Locks to enter on the Atlantic side. The three locks together lower ships 85 ft (26m) when proceeding in this direction. These locks were opened in 1914.
Another set of locks began commercial operation in 2016. The new locks allow transit of larger, New Panamax ships, which have a greater cargo capacity than the previous locks were capable of handling.
Source: Wikipedia.
The Kouju Lily, built in 2011, has a length of 197 m (646 ft) and a beam of 32 m (105 ft).
In Explore 17 May 2020. Best position: #146.
View from near the top of the staircase locks. Boats are in the process of ascending and descending; there is a pound halfway where they can pass. The ponds on the right take half the water from each drop for reuse on the next ascent
Laura & Cristina 7 years
From the Distillery District in Toronto
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Another set of locks on the Weaver Navigation, like Hunts Lock the big one has been decommisioned leaving on the small on in service.
Amtrak’s northbound Vermonter crosses the Connecticut River on the Warehouse Point Bridge, just north of Windsor Locks, CT.
Love locks on the Brooklyn Bridge, only days after this was taken, were declared illegal.
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A canal boat entering the first of five locks at Bingley in Yorkshire. Please also view the new web site at www.garycphotography.co.uk
Seen on a bridge in Bristol.It seems that you and a loved one put the lock on the bridge,and then throw the key into the water,symbolising that you will never be parted.
In total, there are 29 locks in the Caen Hill system rising 237 feet. They are located on the Kennet and Avon canal near Devizes in Wiltshire. This image shows the most famous section consisting of 16 locks in a straight steep section up Caen Hill. These locks were built around 1810 and are a truly magnificent example of the ingenuity of the early canal engineer
Canal Locks - Calderdale, Yorkshire, England.
The Rochdale Canal.
Part of my "Gongoozler" Flickr album.
This is a shot taken through cables with locks on them from a foot bridge at Chambers Bay Park. The Olympic Mountains are in the distance. University Place, Washington State
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The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong (24.3 km) long. It was accessed via a junction with the River Irwell in Salford. Seventeen locks were required to climb to the summit as it passed through Pendleton, heading northwest to Prestolee before it split northwest to Bolton and northeast to Bury. Between Bolton and Bury the canal was level and required no locks. Six aqueducts were built to allow the canal to cross the rivers Irwell and Tonge and several minor roads.
The canal was commissioned in 1791 by local landowners and businessmen and built between 1791 and 1808, during the Golden Age of canal building, at a cost of £127,700 (£9.73 million today).Originally designed for narrow gauge boats, during its construction the canal was altered into a broad gauge canal to allow an ultimately unrealised connection with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The canal company later converted into a railway company and built a railway line close to the canal's path, which required modifications to the Salford arm of the canal.
Most of the freight carried was coal from local collieries but, as the mines reached the end of their working lives sections of the canal fell into disuse and disrepair and it was officially abandoned in 1961. In 1987 a society was formed with the aim of restoring the canal for leisure use and, in 2006, restoration began in the area around the junction with the River Irwell in Salford. The canal is currently navigable as far as Oldfield Road, Salford.