Model Boat Mayhem

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length.
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Inclined plane on canal at Ronquieres Belgium  (Read 1110 times)

Baldrick

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,417
  • Model Boat Mayhem is Great!
  • Location: Nether Effingham (Perfideous Albion)
Inclined plane on canal at Ronquieres Belgium
« on: July 06, 2019, 01:41:49 pm »
Anyone watching the Tour De France on Eurosport ?    They have given us a fantastic helicopter tour of the boat lift on the Charloroi canal in Wallonia.    What a piece of engineering . FANTASTIC ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdK_pYGwky0
Logged
And everyone thought it was IVAN who was terrible

david48

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 866
  • Location: Strathdon,Aberdeenshire
Re: Inclined plane on canal at Ronquieres Belgium
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2019, 02:06:32 pm »

I have used the inclined plane on several time ,it is very impressive . It is a strange feeling seeing the canal just stop when you are going towards Brussles and you are on top of a hill where on our visits there was always a very bad crosswind. Commercial traffic has priority so if it is busy you can finish up waiting a long time ,unless you befriend a barge skipper and go through with him/her .
Brings back good memories Thanks for the post .
David
Logged
Two heads are better than one sheep head  as my old plant manager used to say

Colin Bishop

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Online Online
  • Posts: 12,188
  • Location: SW Surrey, UK
Re: Inclined plane on canal at Ronquieres Belgium
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2019, 07:50:11 pm »
Very appropriate boat name too!

Colin
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.087 seconds with 21 queries.