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19 minutes ago, beyond our ken said:

The Falkirk wheel is a boat-lift, not a bridge

Aye? :byebye

The Wheel (as it is known) is a unique lifting bridge designed to reconnect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. It is the world's first rotating boat lift and the first boat lift to be built in the UK since 1875.

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Aye? :byebye
The Wheel (as it is known) is a unique lifting bridge designed to reconnect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. It is the world's first rotating boat lift and the first boat lift to be built in the UK since 1875.
So which is it, a bridge or a lift...or is it both?

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It IS “bridging” a gap between two canal sections - to replace a flight of locks that were removed and cannot be reconstructed, due to roads and developments being built in the interim. Brilliant engineering solution!

But it IS a lift.  At the site, they proudly describe it as the world’s first rotating boat LIFT.

also, unlike all the other examples, it is allowing traffic to utilise two stretches of water. It’s not constructed to allow traffic to cross a body of water.

 

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17 hours ago, faraway saint said:

Aye? :byebye

The Wheel (as it is known) is a unique lifting bridge designed to reconnect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. It is the world's first rotating boat lift and the first boat lift to be built in the UK since 1875.

your not bothered, but went looking for an obscure website to back yourself up.  LUSAS made the most tenous of connections because it fitted theor need for a bit of content

You go busy yourself looking for evidence to back up views you are not bothered about

 

 

 

 

 

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19 minutes ago, beyond our ken said:

your not bothered, but went looking for an obscure website to back yourself up.  LUSAS made the most tenous of connections because it fitted theor need for a bit of content

You go busy yourself looking for evidence to back up views you are not bothered about

 

 

 

 

 

You're having ANOTHER nightmare, keep it up. :lol:

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