Is it a Boat, is it a Train, more than 1 solution to a problem

[Deleted member 26715]

Saw this & thought you lot who seem to like engineering would too, in the UK we would have built locks.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyab9-_nF4

 

[Deleted member 1258]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wExlZkWh94s

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Yes, I'm familiar with the Anderton lift, along with the Falkirk wheel which replaced locks, but never seen the railway system

 

[slowmotion]

The caisson lock on the Somerset Coal Canal was a work of genius.

http://rtjstevens.co.uk/caishist.html

 

[cheys03]

Impressive! For an example of a rail lift system in the UK there is (was) the Foxton Inclined Plane near Leicester.
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit/foxton-locks/foxtons-fascinating-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxton_Inclined_Plane

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

From the home of the Industrial Revolution I give you the Hay Inclined Plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_Inclined_Plane

 

[raleighnut]

Impressive! For an example of a rail lift system in the UK there is (was) the Foxton Inclined Plane near Leicester.
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit/foxton-locks/foxtons-fascinating-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxton_Inclined_Plane

Yep they keep trying to raise cash to restore the 'inclined Plane' but don't forget the Lock flight at Foxton was derelict and impassable until fairly recently

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wExlZkWh94s

We've had a ride up the Anderton Boat Lift

Nowadays it's electrically powered

NB; this was back in mid-2009

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There is (or was) a hybrid system not too from where I live now, or indeed grew up (that was at the other side of the river)


Coal-carrying containers (water-tight!!) were transported on an under-carriage/wagon, to a slipway
They arrived on a standard-gauge railway. & were floated off into the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal

Scroll down to the B&W photo, of the reversed saddle-tank locomotive, & the method becomes clear
https://www.stanleyhistoryonline.com/Ferry-Lane-Photos.html

Probably 20 of these 'Tom Puddings' were linked together, & towed to Goole, where they were lifted vertically out of the water, & emptied
Being returned in the same way, & pulled out of the water, for another trip to the Colliery

The railway embankment is part of the daily commute to/from work, if my shift allows (ie; light enough)

The basin depicted was where the grassed area is, with the line head off 'top-left', where the trees are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pudding

Partway between 'Stanley Ferry' & NewLands Hall, along the embankment/'lines'