Canals and rivers can be dangerous places, whether you are on holiday or earning your living. A new range of ...More
Canal & Waterways News and Features
What's happening on the UK Canals and Rivers
Canal Junction has regular news updates on canal matters, progress reports on the many canal restoration and rebuilding schemes and special features about UK canals and inland waterways.
Government still wants to transfer EA rivers to CRT
The long running fight to get all our canals and navigable rivers under one management got a big boost when ...More
2016 IWA Festivals, & Liverpool cruise gets easier
The venues for the IWA’s 2016 four main boat festivals are here now, and this year boaters should find it easier to ...More
Floating tractor digs way through tunnel
A floating tractor has been helping to reopen Standedge Tunnel, blocked by a build up of silt during the recent ...More
Volunteers wanted to help move workboats
Volunteers will soon be moving Canal and River Trust work boats around the canals and help to keep an eye on ...More
Too much water sinks boats and closes canals
Flooding doesn’t usually wash out canals, locks and bridges or sink & strand canal boats. Over flow weirs and lock by ...More
December rains flood waterways & damage boats
Record rain storms in the north of England have flooded canals and rivers. Much of the Aire & Calder and Calder & ...More
Tidal Thames to become busier, cleaner, more fun!
Use of the tidal Thames could be transformed over the next 20 years, according to the latest ‘Thames Vision’ issued by ...More