Gentlemen,
Occasionally the job has its perks, I finished for the day on Wednesday in Edinburgh and decided to go and have a look at the Falkirk wheel which is only twenty miles from Edinburgh in the town of Falkirk. It has been constructed to join two canals and has supposed to have been instead of eleven locks. The whole thing is constructed from steel and cost £4.5 million to construct, that also includes the canal to it, the basin it feeds and a visitor centre. It makes three turns an hour depending on traffic and can take up to six barges at any one time ( I think that is correct). My colleague and I arrived just in time to see it move although it was empty. It is definitely worth a visit.
I am back in Edinburgh again next week and we found that the Roslin Chapel is not far away either so are going to visit it and try a crack the code.
Pictures of the wheel in the usual place.
Martin P