[modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos

Do you have any idea of how many canal "puffers" are
still in operation?

Al
--- Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yep Al - with another similar programme on Satellite
> last night - with a 
> chap taking a an ex-working boat from Birmingham,
> where it has been 
> re-built, down the Grand Union Canal to London and
> on to the Thames.
> 
> You should have seen the 90 foot beam engine at one
> of the pumping stations 
> though, Still the world's biggest (and it isn't even
> American !!! <VBG>) 
> where the water that had come down the canal
> (through operation of the 185 
> locks on the nearly 140 mile journey used to be then
> pumped into the local 
> domestic water supply, rather than being wasted by
> effectively being dumped 
> in the Thames, in the 19th century. AND it was steam
> powered, with the coal 
> being brought down from the coal fields in the
> Midlands on the same canal!
> 
> Tony.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 12:56 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos
> 
> 
> > Cruising by a canal puffer!  Sounds like a fun
> trip.
> >
> > Al Messer
> >
> >
> > --- Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Lucky beggar! Buns to the railway stations, where
> >> are the boat pictures ???
> >> I have just been watching Matthew Corbett doing
> his
> >> version of Coast to
> >> Coast on the ITV, via the canals, many of which
> we
> >> had been on before we had
> >> the family - my first love, even before steam
> >> trains!
> >>
> >> Tony Wells.
> 
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