The Falkirk Wheel
Posted in Curiosities, Trips at 12:00 on 4 November 2015
The same day we went to The Kelpies (see the two posts immediately previous to this) we also visited the Falkirk Wheel which is a rotating boat lift linking the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, built using Millenium Fund money. (See Wikipedia’s article here.)
Boat coming down:-
Boat leaving lift:-
Other boat ascending:-
At the quayside were these maquettes of The Kelpies:-
Two (very short) videos of the Wheel in motion:-
Denis Cullinan
4 November 2015 at 12:52
The Falkirk Wheel seems to be an altogether original,approach to the age-old canal lock idea.
There’s a very short moderately-speeded-up video of the Wheel in action at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fX6kJKjg4y0
jackdeighton
4 November 2015 at 19:46
Denis,
Yes it is an original approach to the canal lock.
The Wheel very quickly became a tourist attraction in its own right.
You can go on boat trips from the basin up through the Wheel and down again.
We didn’t bother.
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