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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
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