Al The Windermere Nautical Museum has steam launches which are still fully operational. An excellent Museum to visit if you ever make it over the Pond. Peter -----Original Message----- From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen Messer Sent: 15 April 2008 15:11 To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos Since we have successfully gotten far O/T, are there still Steam launches operating on Lake Windemere? Al --- Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once brought a boat up from a boatyard in > Wolverhampton to Shipley for a > boatyard owner, and we came the "scenic" route round > the Birmingham Ring - > in some places there was so much cutting oil etc in > the canal water from the > nearby factories that it looked green ... <sigh> All > the factories are gone > now though, and the canals cleaned up though, so it > is somewhere else to > re-visit when we start canalling again (after my > wife retires next year!) > > Tony. > > PS, a late reply to Alan's comments about the Thames > steam yatchts - on our > first canalling holiday, over 30 years ago now, we > picked the boat up on the > lower reaches of the Grand Union Canal, went up it > to pick up the Oxford > Canal, went down the Oxford to the Thames (including > a short detour onto the > Isis!), then down the Thames to pick up the Grand > Union again, and so back > to the boat yard. When we were on the Thames though, > we saw a lot of the > little steam powered "yachts", 20 and 30 foot steam > powered launches with a > small day cabin, that Alan mentioned. The waterways > were just changing over > from Commerical to Leisure use, and these yachts > were being rennovated left, > right and centre - a "must have" to park on your > VERY expensive house's VERY > expensive river frontage! As we have been on nearly > every canal in the > country, the Thames is the only place where I have > seen them, so they must a > unique Thames style boat. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Beaman" <dave.beaman@xxxxxxx> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:16 PM > Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos > > > > Try the BCN Al, more waterways than Venice!!! The > Black Country through > > Dudly is worth doing and visiting the Black > Country Museum on the way. If > > you do come this way, give us a shout. > > > > Dave. > > > > Dave > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:03 PM > > Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos > > > > > >> Al, > >> There are quite a lot of steam boats over here. > >> The Steamboat Association lists many of them, > plus there are a lot that > >> are > >> not listed there. > >> > >> As for the canals, I once went from Brentford to > Watford on a coal barge > >> that was returning light to...wherever. > >> That was in the days when almost all the traffic > was commercial. (Around > >> the > >> mid-late 50's.) > >> > >> Although I have been on many inland waterways > since then, I have never > >> been > >> on the canals. > >> Something I plan to remedy, preferably around, > what was, the industrial > >> areas of the midlands / north. > >> Alan > >> > >> MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > >> > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email > to, > >> modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > "unsubscribe" in the subject > >> line. > > > > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email > to, > > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > "unsubscribe" in the subject > > line. > > > > > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email > to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > "unsubscribe" in the subject line. > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.