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Canals 1978 - Warwick Ring


For my second canal trip we had 17 folks, so we had another camper "Sandpiper" and "Greylag" a cabin boat. Both were from Willow Wren at Rugby.

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Descending Stockton Locks at breakfast time

24 September 1978



Breasted up in Bascote locks

24 September 1978



Between Leamington & Warwick

24 September 1978



Warwick Aqueduct over the GWR mainline

24 September 1978



Greylag and Sandpiper at the bottom of the Hatton Flight

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Hatton Locks

24 September 1978



Prop clearing in Walsall

27 September 1978



Prop clearing in Walsall

27 September 1978



Prop clearing in Walsall

27 September 1978



Passing Rushall Jn (M6 J7 on the top)

27 September 1978



Blakey steering through Nuneaton in the rain!

29 September 1978



Yours Truly tries Hawkesbury Jn …

29 September 1978



… just!

29 September 1978



Hawksbury Stop Lock

29 September 1978



Pete Cherry steers out of Hawksbury

29 September 1978



Near Brinklow

29 September 1978



Near Brinklow

29 September 1978



The forward lookouts shout a warning …

29 September 1978



… while 85033 passes on a van train…

29 September 1978



… and Club Imperial gets a bump!

29 September 1978



A 304 unit on an up Trent Valley local near Brinklow

29 September 1978

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth