From memory, I am sure there was at least one incline plane in the
Worsley workings, perhaps several. However I do not remember the
weight of loads on the incline[s] being used to draw boats through the
mine levels. (I think the original thread of this discussion was about
incline planes and tunnel-drawing being connected.) As I recall, the
boats, called "starvationers", were propelled by the manipulation of
water levels.
Mike
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On 26 Sep 2008, at 18:04, sougher wrote:
> Wasn't there an underground canal incline plane in the Worsley
> Navigable levels of the Duke of Bridgewater's coal mines? James
> Brindley the Derbyshire canal engineer being responsible for the
> construction of the Bridgewater Canal.
>
> Incidently the only abandoned incline plane boat lift I can think of
> was the Foxton inclined plane which was adjacent to the Foxton
> Flight (two sets of five locks each) on the Leicester Line of the
> Grand Union canal, but this was on the surface not underground.
>
> Margaret Howard
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