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Canal and River Trust appoints Arcadis, RSK, Stantec and more as technical experts

Tom Pashby — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:00:45 +0000

The Canal and River Trust has appointed Arcadis, RSK and Geotechnical Engineering to provide technical expertise on maintaining its assets amidst the “growing challenge of climate change-driven storms and floods”.

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Grade II listed Oxford canal timber lift bridges to undergo mechanism upgrades

Belinda Smart — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:00:07 +0000

Four Grade II listed lift bridges on the Oxford Canal are to undergo a £650,000 upgrade programme under the auspices of charitable organisation The Canal & River Trust.

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Watch: Canal & River Trust: Managing heritage at risk bridge structures

Thomas Johnson — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:00:36 +0000

Canal & River Trust chief infrastructure and programmes officer Malcolm Horne and principal engineer Fred Hartley discuss how the trust manages over 3,000 bridge structures across its canals, rivers, docks and reservoirs. Most of these bridge structures are over 100 years old and require careful and frequent…

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Parts of UK canal network likely to close as government slashes funding

Belinda Smart — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 03:15:48 +0000

The future of the England and Wales’ canals systems is under threat following a £300M funding cut, the Canal & River Trust has said.

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Another piling milestone reached on £15M Toddbrook Reservoir restoration

Rob Hakimian — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:00:40 +0000

Kier, working on behalf of the Canal & River Trust, has reached a major milestone on the £15M Toddbrook Reservoir upgrade as it has completed piling for the new overflow spillway channel.

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Work begins on £1.7M scheme to repair breached Leeds & Liverpool canal

Rob Hakimian — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:00:03 +0000

The Canal & River Trust has begun work to repair the 200-year-old Leeds & Liverpool Canal, which suffered an embankment failure near Blackburn.

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Essential work begins on Lincolnshire’s one-of-a-kind Keadby Canal Bridge

Rob Hakimian — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:00:24 +0000

Network Rail has begun essential works on Keadby Canal Bridge, also known as Vazon Railway Bridge, a unique sliding bridge in North Lincolnshire. The work comes after a structural fault was found earlier this month that prevented the signaler from being able to close the…

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