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Scottish Canals (Scottish Gaelic: Canàlan na h-Alba) is the Scottish Government body responsible for managing the country's inland waterways. Formerly a division of British Waterways , it became a stand-alone corporation on 2 July 2012, then an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government in April 2020.
There was an upsurge in commercial traffic during the First World War, when components for the construction of mines were shipped through the canal on their way from America to “U.S. Naval Base 18” (Muirtown Basin, Inverness), and fishing boats used it to avoid possible enemy action on the longer route around the north of Scotland.
Another alternative route across central Scotland is the John Muir Way, which runs from Dunbar to Helensburgh, a distance of 215 km (215,000 m). This path includes a section along the Forth and Clyde Canal, and is also designated as one of Scotland's Great Trails .
America's Marine Highway - a federal government initiative; I-40 bridge disaster - where a barge crashed into an interstate bridge; Big Bayou Canot rail accident - where a barge crashed into a railway bridge; Inland Waterway (Michigan) The Waterways Journal Weekly - trade publication; Container on barge - mode of transport; Roll-on/roll-off car ...
The North Channel (known in Irish and Scottish Gaelic as Sruth na Maoile, in Scots as the Sheuch [1]) is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland. The Firth of Clyde merges with the channel, between the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula and Corsewall Point on the Rhins of Galloway . [ 2 ]
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The Landsford Canal was the farthest upstream [2] of a series of river boat navigations built in the 1810s and 1820s by Irish masons under the direction of master contractor Robert Leckie of Scotland – canals built on the Western North Carolina Catawba River and South Carolina Wateree Rivers to provide a direct water route between the upstate settlements and the towns along the Fall Line ...
National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 76 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Kirkcaldy. The route is 168 miles (270 km) in length and is fully open and signed in both directions. Between Dunbar and Kirkcaldy the route is known as the Round the Forth. [1]