Guillotine lock! by peadar

Guillotine lock!

This is a very unusual feature on the UK canal system. Usually locks have manually operated balance gates at either end, like the pair seen in the foreground here. Sometimes there is electrical assistance. But the far gate here is a drop-down guillotine, winch operated; I think this must have been because there was no room to install balance gates around the road bridge. It might also have been a vanity project on the part of the engineer!
Pardon my ignorance, but it sounds rather hazardous to me!
October 8th, 2019  
so interesting.
October 8th, 2019  
Ah, that’s interesting ; what you call a ‘guillotine’ lock is quite common in the Netherlands...what an appropriate name, by the way ; wonder how it’s called in Dutch ...
October 9th, 2019  
@fbailey Only if you are an aristocrat in the French Revolution! :)

I do always wonder if this kind of gate is as good at holding the water back with its horizontal join, but no doubt it does. Nice shot
October 9th, 2019  
Nice colors and view. I don’t understand much about canals, sorry
October 9th, 2019  
very interesting
great landscape and colours
October 9th, 2019  
Very interesting construction. Lovely framing.
October 10th, 2019  
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