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Gairlochy West Locks General View

SC 556401

Description Gairlochy West Locks General View

Date 8/8/1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 556401

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Gairlochy Locks, Caledonian Canal, Inverness-shire These locks are at the south-west end of Loch Lochy, and take the level of the canal down to a pound which runs through to the top lock at Banavie (Neptune's Staircase). The upper lock was added as a regulating and flood-control lock. This view shows the lower lock with both gates closed. The scale of the structure can be judged by the way it dwarfs the holiday cruisers it is raising to the level of the regulating lock. The lock gates on the canal were originally manually operated, by chains wound round vertical windlasses turned by capstans at lockside level, The gates were converted to hydraulic operation from the late 1950s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H79/139/7

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/556401

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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