Date: 25/09/2022

Marking its 200th anniversary this year, the calmly winding Union Canal provides a smooth route for narrowboats to navigate but there have been choppy waters in its history. The canal opened in 1822 and was used to haul coal to Edinburgh along a 31-mile course that starts in Falkirk. For 20 years, it enjoyed ...

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April 1993 view of the bridge that carried the Balerno branch over the Union Canal, near to Balerno Junction where the branch diverged from the main line until 1967.
Location: Balerno Junction
Company: Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway)
10/04/1993 Bill Roberton

Looking north along Edinburgh's Inglis Green Road on Sunday 25 March 2018 through one of the arches of the 1822 Slateford Aqueduct carrying the Union Canal. Just beyond stands the 1848 railway viaduct, being crossed at the time by the TransPennine 0915 Edinburgh Waverley - Manchester Oxford Road.
Location: Slateford Viaduct
Company: Caledonian Railway
25/03/2018 John Furnevel

Photograph taken on the occasion of the unveiling of a 'Red Wheel' on the Leamington Lift Bridge with Stuart Wilkinson NTT chair, John Cameron NTT VP, Chris O’Connell SC and Peter Robinson SC in attendance.
Location: Leamington Lift Bridge
Company: Union Canal
14/07/2021 John Yellowlees

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