A mini-forest made of real trees and soil planted onto a converted canal hopper is due to travel the canals ...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.
Close that weedhatch or get sinking feeling!
Owners of boats with weed hatches are being reminded by the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) to make a routine of ...More
Dukinfield Cleanup commemorates ‘Ashtac’.
The Manchester Branch of The Inland Waterways Association (IWA)in partnership with the Canal & River Trust is planning a weekend ...More
Canals Breaking on to Google
Two sections of the Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) waterway network can now be ‘Googled’ as the first step in ...More
Horse drawn boat trips on Montgomery Canal
Countess is one of only half a dozen horse-drawn trip boats in the country, the only one running regular cruises in ...More
Olympic Flame burning high
Over 3000 people watched the restored Shropshire Union Fly-boatSaturn being bow-hauled across 120 foot high World Heritage Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying scout ...More
Ship Canal Cruises
The popular Manchester Ship Canal cruises will again run from National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port soon. Read more... ...More
Canal & River Trust launches
On July 12th 2012 2000 miles of canals and rivers which had been managed by British Waterways (and other ...More