Talk:Peak Forest Canal

Map
My understanding, supported by the article text, is that Bugsworth basin is the end of the main line and that Whaley Bridge basin is at the end of an arm. The map shows the opposite. I do not know how to edit the map, so perhaps someone more adept could do this. WhaleyTim (talk) 13:21, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * This seems to have been done. Zin92 (talk) 19:11, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Marple Railway
I don't think that the use of this railway is clear. The relevant text reads as follows:
 * "Nevertheless, at the end of 1796, funds from investors were still insufficient to finish the locks and the aqueduct at Marple and Outram was asked to suggest a temporary alternative. He produced two solutions, one to cross the arches of the aqueduct, the other assuming that the arches were unfinished. It was decided not to interfere with the ongoing construction of the aqueduct, so the railway ran from its Marple end to the proposed top lock."

Was the temporary alternative a railway? If so...

I suggest that this should be made clear and maybe a reference be added to transshipment between canal and railway being required at both ends of the railway.

Was this a light railway (given that it was temporary)?

I don't understand the two solutions. Solution 1 would have had part of the temporary railway placed on top of the aqueduct? Solution 2 would have had the railway bypassing the aqueduct? If so, the chosen solution seems to have been neither, ie it was a shorter solution (number 3) which was dependent upon a completed aqueduct (for use by boats rather than by a railway) and so it only needed to run from the aqueduct to the top lock of the Marple flight?

Thanks, Zin92 (talk) 19:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Unidentified locations
Can anyone identify where these pics:

were taken, and update their pages on Wikimedia Commons, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:59, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * The second one may be in the area around Marple Locks. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)