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Tony Watkins

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Falkirk Wheel Scotland Print E-mail

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Boats are lowered down
The Millenium Link was a projet to connect the east and west of Scotland with an internal waterway.

 

 

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Boats coming in to the wheel
The Falkirk Wheel replaced a dismantled staircase of eleven locks. It links the Grand Union Canal and the Firth and Forth Canal.

 

 

 

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The hook like moving section lowering down
The wheel has a lift capacity of 115 feet.

 

The photogaphs are from the Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture. 

Please refer to that book for more details and more illustrations.
 
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