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 ...

Normally closed to the public, the Bradley workshop in the West Midlands is one of only two specialist sites in the country where skilled craftspeople hand build the giant lock gates that keep the ...

As early as 1690, William Penn envisioned an east-west golden link, a canal that would connect the inland frontier areas of the Susquehanna River with the port of Philadelphia on the Delaware River.

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The largest fibre-reinforced polymer lock gates were installed in the new Number III lock on the Wilhelminakanaal in Tilburg. Never before have such large (6.2 x 12.9 m) lock gates made of ...

WASHINGTON — The southernmost portion of the historic C&O Canal is a step closer to realizing its former glory in D.C. On Thursday, big wooden gates that eventually will manage water flow between ...