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.

‘Carry on Cruising’ – or risk losing your licence! Update

If live-aboard canal boaters don’t move far enough or often enough in one year they could find that they can not get ...More

Liverpool Link access to be made easier

Access to Liverpool and the Docks down the Liverpool Link is to be made easier, but free mooring time on ...More

Grant to NWM to restore 2 nationally important boats

A wooden ‘short boat’ is to be restored back to full working condition to act as a floating learning centre ...More

Damp wood deadly and costly on boat stoves

Boaters using damp wood and logs in their stoves could be risking not just their lives but also stove damage ...More

National Maritime Museum floats mystery boat

Can you help us identify this very strange boat? It has 2 odd paddle wheels and one idea is that it was a canal dredger! ...More

Wappenshall warehouse restoration plans in crisis

The plans of the Shrewsbury & Newport canals Trust to restore the warehouses and basin at Wappenshall are in crisis. ...More

Wigan still without Pier, but will get a ‘Quarter’!

Wigan has not had a ‘Pier’ for nearly a hundred years, but the historic canalside area that bears the name is ...More

No narrowboats again in London Boat Show

You could see narrow boats at this year’s CWM FX London International Boat Show but only if you went outside ...More

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