{"id":5022,"date":"2016-10-04T17:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sv-ananda.com\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:00:16","slug":"the-falkirk-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=5022","title":{"rendered":"The Falkirk Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, October 2<\/p>\n

Our final destination on our holiday is Edinburgh. However, we planned a slight detour to visit the Falkirk Wheel, which is more or less between Stirling & Edinburgh & about 45 minutes’ drive from Edinburgh.
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\nThe Falkirk Wheel is a modern version of a hydraulic boat lift that lifts & lowers canal narrowboats a height of 79 feet – joining the Union Canal with the Forth & Clyde Canal. It went into service in 2002.
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\nThis is an amazing piece of Scottish engineering. Boats float in a tub that rotates inside the circle at each end of the wheel. The tub always stays level while the whole mechanism rotates from top to bottom.<\/p>\n

We watched the wheel rotate through a cycle. It was surprisingly quiet & fast & only took about 5 minutes from start to finish.
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\nWe had lots of fun going through the locks on our narrowboat but I’m not certain that I could take this ride.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to a video on YouTube that someone else took of the wheel in operation: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fX6kJKjg4y0<\/a><\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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