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ter Canal. Its wooden construction was based on Mersey and Weaver river barges with crew
accommodation in fore and aft cabins below deck. Its maximum load of 45t was large and this
contributed to the prosperity of the canal, even resisting railway competition at first. Steam
engines were used from 1890, especially the V-shaped twin units of the Leeds & Liverpool
Canal Carrying Company in Wigan, and they worked in pairs as motor and butty, the last one
being launched in 1936 and the design finally being withdrawn in the 1950s.
Plank Lane lifting bridge .
One Poolstock lock was built with a wooden chamber to deal with subsidence problems.
Both have penstocks that open sideways instead of vertically as would usually be the case
and the lower lock has windlasses with chains to pull the balance beams shut instead of rely-
ing on leg power, which would normally be enough. It also has a footbridge with baffle plates
to resist wheeled traffic.
Abram begins suddenly with houses right beside the canal but then draws back to leave
the hillside on the left as grazing for horses, overlooked by a blackened but substantial stone
church. To the right there are long views across the valley of the Glaze Brook. The canal runs
on embankment, at times, with low ground on both sides. The Dover Lock Inn draws atten-
tion to a series of bank undulations that were once Dover Top Lock and Dover Low Lock,
these two being eliminated when subsidence made them unnecessary.
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