Experts have completed a painstaking 10-week process to replace two sets of lock gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. Worn-out gates were replaced at the top and bottom ends of the 200-year-old ...

Weighing roughly 453,600 kilograms each, or about one million pounds, two massive Welland Canal chamber gates at Thorold’s Lock 7 are being replaced this week. The spare gates, each about a hundred ...

Parks Canada identified problems last year with a Rideau Canal lock gate that broke this week, forcing the closure of the canal’s Ottawa locks and stranding boaters for nearly two days, a former ...

The 26 locks of the third Welland Canal were rendered obsolete when the new Welland Ship Canal opened for traffic in 1930. Ships would no longer pass through their gates, the water that made them work ...

A set of huge new lock gates have been hoisted into place over a canal. The £100,000 project in Wigan is part of a major five-month overhaul of locks along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal by the Canal ...

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Maintenance work under way on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Experts have completed a painstaking 10-week process to replace two sets of lock gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. Worn-out gates ...