TPT March 2025

HYDROGEN fuel cell domestic power for boats

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March 29, 2025

GREENER solutions are a subject that Towpath Talk reports on frequently and something we like to update our readers on, as and when the opportunities arise. Hydrogen fuel cells are one of the key components in that discussion and liveaboard boater, Neil Trevithick, has supplied us with an independent review of the HyArk hydrogen cell…
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BRAUNSTON’S rudder mystery

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March 28, 2025

Tim Coghlan reports… THE waterside setting of the Red Wheel Plaque, awarded in 2024 to Braunston Marina by the National Transport Trust in 2024, has been enhanced as a historic canal transport hub by the placing beneath it of an old iron working boat rudder. Its origins remain something of a mystery but various suggestions have…
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IWA Canalway Cavalcade 2025

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March 27, 2025

IWA Canalway Cavalcade returns to London’s Little Venice on Saturday, May 3, for the full Early May Bank Holiday weekend. Each year the best of life on the waterways in London and its community is celebrated at IWA Canalway Cavalcade. There’s something for everyone at this vibrant canal festival in the heart of London’s waterways.…
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WINNERS of photo competition announced

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March 25, 2025

CANAL holiday business Foxhangers was thrilled to announce the winners of its highly anticipated Memories photo competition. In the run up to the competition the hire firm was inundated with an array of stunning entries, each capturing the essence and beauty of canal holidays. First prize went to Reeling in Holiday Memories by Estella Rich, who…
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MUSEUM FOCUS: Celebrating the rich history of the Thames

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March 24, 2025

Nicola Lisle explores the story of the Thames at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, from its royal connections to its industrial heyday. A MARITIME museum might not seem the obvious choice for anyone interested in Britain’s inland waterways, but the National Maritime Museum is not just about our seafaring past. There is also a…
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WAVERLEY on board with Railway 200 celebrations

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March 20, 2025

PS WAVERLEY, the world’s last sea-going paddle steamer, is backing Railway 200, the national celebration of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. Carrying the year-long celebration event’s logo on its website and publications, Waverley Excursions Ltd is reminding passengers that the ship was built in 1947 by…
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VOLUNTEERS needed to help canal wildlife

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March 19, 2025

A CALL has gone out for volunteers to join a spring campaign to help wildlife along Britain’s waterways. The Canal & River Trust says there are great opportunities for millions of people to help endangered species. With spring around the corner, the charity is preparing the ground for the year ahead and is calling on…
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OXFORD CITY COUNCIL start eco-moorings project

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March 18, 2025

Phil Pickin reports… WORK has begun to install electric infrastructure for boats to reduce air pollution along Oxford’s waterways. The council, in conjunction with the Canal & River Trust, was awarded £193,000 by the Government as part of the annual Air Quality Grant to install what have been termed as ‘eco-moorings’ on the Aristotle Lane visitor…
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BIODIVERSITY BOOST along towpath

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March 17, 2025

WORK to improve wildlife-rich hedgerow running along the Montgomery Canal is underway by Glandŵr Cymru, the Canal & River Trust in Wales. Thanks to funding from the Local Places for Nature Fund, the initiative is part of the Putting Down Roots project. Volunteers have been undertaking hedge laying along the canal towpath between Newtown and…
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FREEZING WEATHER BRAVED for restoration project

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March 15, 2025

HARDY volunteers from the Shropshire Union Canal Society braved freezing temperatures to ensure Montgomery Canal restoration work stayed on course. They managed to continue their work at Crickheath despite frozen ground preventing them from hedge planting and managed to clear a sizeable stretch of vegetation as part of the restoration plan. Tom Fulda, restoration project…
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BUILDING BRIDGES on the Droitwich Canals

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March 14, 2025

REMOVING and installing canal footbridges is not an easy task. So, when contractor Griffiths was tasked with replacing two old bridges on the Droitwich Canals, the team knew it would require large-scale, unusual lifting operations on the water. With this in mind, the company turned to marine engineering and maintenance experts The Rothen Group to…
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FEED THE BIRDS… but with the right food

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March 13, 2025

Lucy Wood reports… NORTH East Lincolnshire-based James (Jim) Elliott, known as the Canoe River Cleaner, regularly takes to his local waterways in a canoe to clear litter and fly-tipping, conduct wildlife surveys and more, all the while promoting the well-being benefits of being outdoors. Among the environmental issues he highlights, he campaigns heavily about using…
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SET SAIL on this special steamship

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March 12, 2025

Lucy Wood reports… One of the UK’s premier historic steamships celebrates a double anniversary this year – its 122nd birthday and 10th year back in service after being saved from the scrapyard and restored to working order. THE Daniel Adamson, a unique combination of Edwardian tugboat and Art Deco passenger ferry, sails back on to…
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STANDEDGE TUNNEL leads to Borneo…

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March 11, 2025

Well, indirectly. We’ll leave Lucy Wood to explain… An intrepid group of schoolfriends braved one of the UK’s longest tunnels to raise funds for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Borneo. THE adventurous pupils from Honley High School, in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, took on navigating the cold, murky waters of Standedge Tunnel. Located in the…
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