Talk:Thames and Medway Canal

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To-do list for Thames and Medway Canal: edit · history · watch · refresh
  • Dung Wharf, Higham
  • find non-© version of diag showing railway on stilts
  • ditto Strickland canal-only diag
  • find orig (Gutenberg) sources of quotes? Not on Gutenberg - Uni of Kent has copy of Orr
  • decide what goes here, what under Higham? All canal & tunnel here; minor mention and x-ref from Higham.
  • tidal differences-> pump, locks?
  • true dimensions? Gravesham's leaflet on canal [1] give: "26.5 feet (9.6m) wide including the towpath. The tunnel is 2.5 miles (4.5km) long." Used 1826 Strickland diag.
  • check hist of roof falls, hole in orchard
  • Look up Acts of Parl: 1800,1804 and 1810

* Rationalise metric/imperial (go for imperial as main, as original canal + current boats measured in this?)

[edit] Is it now a railway tunnel?

is this the same tunnel which is now used to link strood train station with higham or is this another tunnel. i don't know why but i always thought that that tunnel was once a canal but i could be wrong Pratj 14:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Heh! Read the article! I've just made it clearer, tho... JackyR | Talk 18:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
im sorry, (i didn't read it)!

shall i add something about the renovation they did recently after that train huit a boulder a few years back. Pratj 19:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Um, that's already there, too! JackyR | Talk 21:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

i really should read the article properly lol Pratj 11:27, 9 September 2006 (UTC)