2019

SJ6475 : Anderton boat lift - pleasure boat

taken 5 years ago, near to Anderton, Cheshire West And Chester, England

Anderton boat lift - pleasure boat
Anderton boat lift - pleasure boat
Most of the traffic in the lifts is actually the site's own pleasure cruises, which go a mile or so upriver and back, then ascend the lift (or as here, start by descending it before the river cruise). These passengers have paid for a ticket that helps pay the running costs of the lift; privately owned boats can use the lift at no charge.
Anderton Boat Lift

Ranking alongside the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct as one of the great icons of the British canal network, the boat lift at Anderton was an ingenious Victorian solution to the problem of transferring boats the 50 feet between the Trent and Mersey Canal and the River Weaver. It was originally built in 1875 with two caisson, one of which is lowered as the other is raised. In the original design, steam operated hydraulic rams were assisted by pumping some water out of the ascending caisson, thus making it lighter. Unfortunately the equipment proved unreliable mainly due to corrosion caused by using polluted canal water for the hydraulics, and the lift was extensively modified in 1908 using an electric system. The lift had to be closed again in 1983 when corrosion was found in the superstructure and it seemed unlikely that it would ever operate again; contemporary photographs show the lift in a very dilapidated condition. However, towards the end of the 1990s, with a contribution from the Heritage Lottery Fund, money was raised to restore the lift using a version of the original hydraulic system - this time using oil rather than canal water. The fully restored lift was opened in 2002 and is now a major tourist attraction as well as an important component of the canal network.


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SJ6475, 407 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Stephen Craven   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 23 June, 2019   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 20 July, 2019
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 6470 7519 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:16.3508N 2:31.8471W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 6471 7517
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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