Parks Canada identified problems last year with a Rideau Canal lock gate that broke this week, forcing the closure of the canal’s Ottawa locks and stranding boaters for nearly two days, a former ...

Experts have completed a painstaking 10-week process to replace two sets of lock gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. Worn-out gates were replaced at the top and bottom ends of the 200-year ...

The Canal and River Trust said the gates became detached from the lock walls after someone removed both gate collar fixings. The boat remains in the lock and the trust said it was supporting the ...

Weighing roughly 453,600 kilograms each, or about one million pounds, two massive Welland Canal chamber gates at Thorold’s Lock 7 are being replaced this week. The spare gates, each about a hundred ...

The lock gate was put on a pontoon and dragged down the canal by a team at the start of September. Ron Common, the trust's volunteer project manager, said fitting it was "very special".

The gate at Lock No2, on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, is Grade II listed and so the trust needs permission from the city council before it can carry out the work. Lock gates need to be ...

A lock gate has been hand-towed down a canal on a pontoon by volunteers and moored by a 19th Century cottage built by Florence Nightingale's uncle. Aqueduct Cottage, near Cromford, in Derbyshire ...

Emergency work to repair a lock gate in Oxford was completed in one week. The repairs were carried out at lock 27 on the Oxford Canal in Little Bourton after damage was discovered in February.