View from SW looking up Neptune's Staircase
SC 796255
Description View from SW looking up Neptune's Staircase
Date 18/5/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796255
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Banavie Locks, Caledonian Canal, Highland This view from the south-west, taken on 18 May 1976, shows the upper part of the eight-lock flight, the largest on the canal. The locks are arranged in what is called a staircase, with the top gates of one lock being the bottom gates of the next, and are known as 'Neptune's Staircase'. The lock gates were too heavy to be operated using balance beams, as was usual in earlier canals, so windlasses were used. In the early 1960s hydraulic rams were introduced to replace the windlasses. The canal is now used mainly by pleasure craft. These locks are at the west end of the Caledonian Canal, which was built between 1803 and 1822 as a ship canal, to avoid the hazardous passage round the north of Scotland through the Pentland Firth. The canal was designed by Thomas Telford, and government-funded. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT174
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