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Mon 22 Dec 25 11:47

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Zero

to fix this

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lvq0yk9dko

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Mon 22 Dec 25 12:00

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - tyrednemotional

"The force asked people to avoid the area and seek alternate routes".

Good luck with that then!

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Mon 22 Dec 25 12:27

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Ted

Once again. everything bigged up. Hardly a ' major incident ' Happens often round here with the Bridgewater Canal. No-one hurt, a few boats inconvenienced and a lot of water in the fields.

We've used a campsite close to this, nice area, if a little soggy now. Lovely ols market town.

Ted

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Mon 22 Dec 25 14:21

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Andrew-T

>> Hardly a ' major incident ' Happens often round here with the Bridgewater Canal. No-one hurt, a few boats inconvenienced and a lot of water in the fields. >>

It looks pretty major to me. The breach in the Bridgewater will not be fixed any time soon. These washouts usually follow heavy rain, where the canal is on an embankment and the 200-year-old sides give way. The delay is partly (or mainly) due to Peel Holdings dragging their feet, which may not happen at Whitchurch, hopefully. But the CRT isn't made of money.

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Mon 22 Dec 25 19:09

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Robbie34

I used to have a canal boat in the seventies. One year, 1971 or 72, there was a breech on the
Bridgewater Canal and I had to use the Maqnchester Ship Canal to Ellesmere Port in both directions.
It was quite hair raising with large boats coming in both directions and entering the lock in Manchester.

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Tue 23 Dec 25 05:31

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Duncan

>> "The force asked people to avoid the area and seek alternate routes".
>>
>> Good luck with that then!
>>

Alternative. Alternative. Alternative.

Alternate means to use every other one.

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Tue 23 Dec 25 08:57

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - tyrednemotional

I rang 101* to let West Mercia Police know of your concern, Duncan. I note they've been instrumental in removing the original, offending text.

(* I didn't think it quite merited a 999 call)

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Tue 23 Dec 25 09:40

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Andrew-T

>> Alternative. Alternative. Alternative. Alternate means to use every other one. >>

'Alternate route' is (or certainly was) standard usage across the pond. Anyway we all know what is meant !

On a recent trip to east Monmouthshire we came across a similar permanent road sign saying (effectively) Road Ahead Closed - Find Another Way. Not very helpful.

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Tue 23 Dec 25 09:42

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Zero

>> On a recent trip to east Monmouthshire we came across a similar permanent road sign
>> saying (effectively) Road Ahead Closed - Find Another Way. Not very helpful.

What is welsh for "Tough s***"?

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Tue 23 Dec 25 09:44

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Andrew-T

>> What is welsh for "Tough s***"? >>

IIRC the sign was not bilingual, or I might have been able to oblige. No graffiti either.

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Tue 23 Dec 25 14:24

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Zero

It appears that there is/was a small culvert running under that section of the canal, so its likely it scoured out the bank, which collapsed.

Quite common on railways

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Tue 23 Dec 25 15:27

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Ted

Under railways.....back to Duncan.

Ted

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Tue 23 Dec 25 16:29

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Zero

>>
>> Under railways.....back to Duncan.

There was an aqueduct that leaked onto the railway.

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Tue 23 Dec 25 18:16

Will need a lot of Silicone sealant - Andrew-T

>> It appears that there is/was a small culvert running under that section of the canal,
>> so its likely it scoured out the bank, which collapsed. Quite common on railways >>

Possible, but these failures on canals often happen when the banks get saturated, quite often by slow but steady leakage from the canal itself. The famous train crash between Ruabon and Llangollen after WW2 was from a similar cause - canal bank failure in the night, above the railway. The slope was/is geologically unstable and the canal had been known to leak for years. The sudden washout took the railway with it, leaving a hole very similar to this recent one.

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