Talk:Glastonbury Canal

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[edit] On the towpath?

Does that stack up? Present-day canals have a waterway maybe 15 plus feet wide and a towpath maybe 6 feet wide. It's difficult to imagine closing the canal and building a railway requiring say 15 feet of formation on the towpath. Obviously they would have wanted to avoid any earthworks they could, but wouldn't they have been forced to drain the canal and level the towpath into the bed of it to make a flat solum?

Afterbrunel 06:13, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

No. The railway was built along the bank. The canal was used to transport material for the railway. Could also have been used to remove spoil.Geni 21:16, 28 June 2007 (UTC)