Just discovered this rare beauty on a British documentary only yesterday. I live in France, but hope to see Bonnie Scotland before I die. Also I love whiskey- the proper stuff.
The amazing part isn't that someone designed this nor that it was built and is functional. The most amazing part is that someone looked at the site, and decided that was how the problem would be solved. Makes me want to travel there just to ride in it once.
From a north american point of view, the wonder is that nobody laughs at the idea, shouted NERD and then pocketed the money and just build some overpass for cars...
It is a little underwhelming when you're there. My impression is that it's mainly used for tourism as not a lot of river traffic. It's like a theme park ride with no thrills
Well that has to be the best 8 minutes I've spent on RUclips in ages. Perfect commentary, filled with interesting facts and no fluff. Thanks for uploading, much appreciated. Shame I live down in the south west as I'd love to see it in action for real.
Tar Heel Brit. I live near Bristol I went up 8n June so light early in morning and dark at 10 30 so long day of light I left at 5 am got to falkert at around 11 o'clock done the wheel had a boat ride on a barg along the canal and back down the wheel went to visitors centre not a lot to do there so left after 2 hours drove along to the kelpies which was amazing left about 5 pm got home 10 45 ish worth a long day out hope you do it and enjoy it as much as I did
Yes, 8' of Sanity and Amazement, not to mention the sheer Beauty of the Engineering. So go see it, eh? Don't be like the idiots that haven't anything good to say. . .
Clever but simple engineering, a beautiful piece of architecture, anyone involved must feel rightly proud. Blends the old with the new and complements both. Engineering in the Uk is still alive.
I sometimes watch a movie where the dialogue is vital to the plot. Then they play some unnecessary annoying music just to make it harder to hear the words. Why?
I have witnessed the informational video on the engineering masterpiece of the Falkirk wheel which includes a visiting centre - and I am a changed man. Before, I was cynical and blind, and towards the end of my journey I found myself weeping softly to the ethereal melodies as the narrator confided in us that the Kalkirk wheel operates on the same amount of power it takes to boil 8 kettles of water. Pure emotion! Nothing prepares you for this transfiguration
What an elegant (i.e. simple) solution to an elevation problem. Many locations would have built traditional locks to get the boats from one level to the other, which would have torn up large tracts of land and likely cost even more. Kudos to the engineers who created this!
Even I'm impressed and I'm a mechanical engineer.... It's very difficult bringing beauty and function together....the designers of this construction have passed this test....with distinction.
the content is good, the filming great, commentary slow but quirky. However the whole film is painfully slo-o-o-owww. It would be much improved with editing out half the film and being shorter. Easily done and keeping the same information.
Patricia Hope No it wouldn't. I hate the MTV two second attention span style flipping views all over the place so you can't see what is really going on. No thanks.
Patricia Hope No it wouldn't. I hate the MTV two second attention span style flipping views all over the place so you can't see what is really going on. No thanks.
One of the aspects I find truly amazing is the really low horsepower required to raise the ship- 30 HP! Great engineering and visually appealing! Well done Scots!
The two flails are always in equilibrium, the 30 HP "only" serve to give the speed of rotation of the whole (and to fight as the friction). if I am not mistaken, an empty or loaded boat, it is a volume of water that varies according to the law of Archimedes.
This is amazing! I never heard of it before. I was thinking different boats would cause differences in weight until he talked about displacement. Nice presentation.
Its everytime the same weigth on both sides - phisikal principal. It dosent matter if there are 3 heavy botes on one side and non on the other. The amought of water is fixing it if the level is the same.
Absolutely incredible feat of engineering. This should be listed as one the wonders of the world- right up there with The Lighthouse of Alexandria or the Temple of Artemis.
I turned on Closed Captioning while watching the video. The CC AI had more trouble understanding the Scottish accent than I did! Maybe that's because my ancestry is 50% Scottish!
I stupidly wondered how forces would differ with heavier and lighter boats, then the narrator pointed out that the displacement of water keeps the loads balanced. Simply brilliant.
They are Scotty , Enterprise Engineer Star Trek. Tony Kettle,North of England, so English. The wheel constructed in that well known Scottish County, Derbyshire. In case you dont know where that is, its England.
MrLewooz I dislike the music being so loud when the narrator is speaking. That's probably why the hundreds of others dislike it, too. Other than that it was great.
MrLewooz - concur.... . . . . On 29 Jan 2019 I noted this was viewed 2,775,255 times. With 9.3K thumbs up and 1.0K thumbs down. 821 comments before mine.(just posted that info to document ... one of my quirks) Yes bloody brilliant... yes.... Engineering Marvel... . Agree it is hard to understand why so many gave a thumbs down.. perhaps that many can’t comprehend the science and engineering it took to accomplish this.. . . Nope not a thrill ride, or catchy music, ... no lasers, CGI graphics, or explosions, .... perhaps those that gave a thumbs down expected to see some mutant zombie alien robot dinosaurs.... . . Just a video showing something interesting few know about, and fewer get to see .... in real life. .
@grodhagen my grandkids watch this Disney cartoon called Bluey, it's really cute... one of the episodes they're teaching the kids to appreciate what they have and not be jealous of others, when the neighbor dog looks over and says "look at the pizza I made with the pizza oven I got from Hammerbarn!', the dad says "Kids, were going to Hammerbarn..." I told my daughter we need to stock up on supplies because there's another lockdown coming, and there's probably going to be a grid down situation..we're going to wish that we had a pizza oven from Hammerbarn... Not one minute later, I got a coupon for $5 off a $50 purchase at Lowe's. I haven't seen a commercial for Lowe's, let alone get a coupon to go there, ever😮
It's a beautiful surrounding, I grew up there, that area used to be the tar works. ..with the fish works some way back ..the stink could be eye watering.So it's an even more impressive achievement. What happened to the tar pool I fell in?
Awesome video, and very nice explanation, especially on the energy usage (and kettle equivalent 😁) and the Archimedean balancing gondolas. If I may add a slight critique: The soundtrack (song) is a tad bit too loud. Good song, but the volume is a bit overpowering. Lower it down a bit, and this video is perfect 👍
Simply a briliant and beautiful Construction build upon Archimedes principle of the body mass diplace the Water giving updrift and then allways wil be in balance at the same weight to the Wheel.
that's great for personal watercraft and sightseeing vessels but it would take one a hundred or a thousand times that size to create one for Cargo ships within.. let's say the Panama Canal or any lock that serves Cargo ships. this is a nice creation just the same.
Narration shouldn't have reverb/echo. Music is too loud, it drowns out the narrator's voice. Other than that, wonderful video. Why don't we have engineering like this in America ? Oh ya, I remember... because American politicians and big corporations have to cut corners using inferior materials and pay their labor cheap while putting all the funds for wonderful projects like this into their own pockets... making it to dangerous and unprofitable to bother with. Great engineering. Wonderful concept. I must visit Scotland some day.
Yeah, this is a slow video, but damn it's fascinating. I love seeing creative ways engineering and architecture can be combined to solve problems. Far more beautiful than a set of locks in my opinion.
This is amazing, I have never seen anything like this before. The design is absolutely beautiful, and the energy efficiency is really impressive, considering the size. I would have thought it would take far more power.
What a waste of public money on an archaic canal system that almost no-one uses. There’s a lot more pressing things the money could have been spent on.
Nice job of getting God to do the voice over. Who'd have guessed he had a scottish accent?
Of course he has a Scottish accent.
Well, if it’s not Scottish - it’s crap!
Sounds like historian tom devine
He sounds like a piss head warbling into a microphone in the middle of a tunnel.
@aboctok He's use to Cubic cubits. ;-)
I had no idea this existed. I found my jaw hanging open through the first few minutes of the video!
This guy sure sounds like he would be the life of the party.
LMAO😂
LMAO😂
He's just hung over. Wait till tonight
The Scottish accent is more suited to threats of violence than educational videos.
I wanna party with this guy
Just discovered this rare beauty on a British documentary only yesterday. I live in France, but hope to see Bonnie Scotland before I die. Also I love whiskey- the proper stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it.
If you enjoy whiskey you should be going to Kentucky or Ireland. The brew produced by the Scots is whisky.
WOW, astonished at this engineering masterpiece.
Built by The Butterley Company Builders of St Pancras Station in London, Founded by Benjamin Outram Of Ripley Derbyshire
Props to the narrator
That is one godly voice right there
He sounds like my country's most popular flat earther
@@dhedetry8571 lmao
I found it annoying
The speed is set wrong.. For real voice, set speed to 1.25.
@@rukeyser. Thank you for pointing that out. I would not have known.
The amazing part isn't that someone designed this nor that it was built and is functional. The most amazing part is that someone looked at the site, and decided that was how the problem would be solved. Makes me want to travel there just to ride in it once.
Most likely built to be a tourist attraction, seemingly works if you want to go just for that.
From a north american point of view, the wonder is that nobody laughs at the idea, shouted NERD and then pocketed the money and just build some overpass for cars...
I live 10 mins away and it’s pretty boring
It is a little underwhelming when you're there. My impression is that it's mainly used for tourism as not a lot of river traffic. It's like a theme park ride with no thrills
Instablaster...
Well that has to be the best 8 minutes I've spent on RUclips in ages. Perfect commentary, filled with interesting facts and no fluff. Thanks for uploading, much appreciated. Shame I live down in the south west as I'd love to see it in action for real.
Tar Heel Brit. I live near Bristol I went up 8n June so light early in morning and dark at 10 30 so long day of light I left at 5 am got to falkert at around 11 o'clock done the wheel had a boat ride on a barg along the canal and back down the wheel went to visitors centre not a lot to do there so left after 2 hours drove along to the kelpies which was amazing left about 5 pm got home 10 45 ish worth a long day out hope you do it and enjoy it as much as I did
Yes, 8' of Sanity and Amazement, not to mention the sheer Beauty of the Engineering. So go see it, eh? Don't be like the idiots that haven't anything good to say. . .
I'm glad I lived in Falkirk and my father is from Falkirk iams first generation American he is from Falkirk
@@waverunner3911 Good man. That's the way to do it! Bet it was one hell of an outing.
Great engineering but the background music sound like a memorial document video before they destroy the wheel.
Clever but simple engineering, a beautiful piece of architecture, anyone involved must feel rightly proud. Blends the old with the new and complements both.
Engineering in the Uk is still alive.
I sometimes watch a movie where the dialogue is vital to the plot. Then they play some unnecessary annoying music just to make it harder to hear the words. Why?
Before the great fidget spinner attacked
Lol.... I was wondering why I was expecting “ 20 people died that day”! Wrong music for sure....
Doesn’t need music.
@@peterperigoe9231 best engineering must simple and work .
Both my self and RUclips agree, I needed the Falkirk Wheel in my life today.
Funniest thing I've read for the day...😂😂
Five days behind you, but, samesies!!
I needed a reminder of how it's called.
Russian shiplift to a height of 120 meters :) ruclips.net/video/pjUPL2_Jzjg/видео.html
I had this suggested the other day, it's absolutely gorgeous!!
I feel your enthusiasm brother.
Yeah he for sure lightened my day!
Thank you for posting this view and explanation of an engineering marvel. Wonderful to learn more about Scotland and how the world works.
Engineering work done in Derbyshire England. Transported by road to Scotland
Never knew this existed. Now it’s a bucket list entry.
I live 10 minutes away,it’s not too exciting lol
Well worth a visit! Was born near the site.
I have witnessed the informational video on the engineering masterpiece of the Falkirk wheel which includes a visiting centre - and I am a changed man. Before, I was cynical and blind, and towards the end of my journey I found myself weeping softly to the ethereal melodies as the narrator confided in us that the Kalkirk wheel operates on the same amount of power it takes to boil 8 kettles of water. Pure emotion! Nothing prepares you for this transfiguration
Thankyou
Mind = Blown ! That's amazing! Great feat of engineering.
Met the falkirk wheel at a charity do once.
Seriously one of the most amazing feats of engineering I've ever seen! I would love to see this in person some day.
Check out the anderton boat lift. Similar principle but built in 1875 and still working.
Yet Castle Douglas isn't
one of the ugliegst things i seen thoo, lol.
I live in Falkirk ahahaha
I live close to it
What an elegant (i.e. simple) solution to an elevation problem. Many locations would have built traditional locks to get the boats from one level to the other, which would have torn up large tracts of land and likely cost even more. Kudos to the engineers who created this!
This is one gorgeous, beautifully designed...thingy.........said the undereducated yet always curious Yankee gal.......
As a Brit, I can confirm that it is, indeed, a thingy.
Even I'm impressed and I'm a mechanical engineer....
It's very difficult bringing beauty and function together....the designers of this construction have passed this test....with distinction.
It would suck if the whatchamacallit in the thingy went all cattywampus and left the canal traffic discombobulated.
The reverb is so unnecessary. Why is Scottish God narrating this?
It's very necessary!
This would not have been the same without him. Love the accent.
Because your in his homeland, just needed some pipes and I would have been totally misty eyed.
@@Snagglepuss1952 aye, something about those pipes makes me cry. My soul is homesick and I've never set foot there.
Love the Echo 👍👌
Superb video, very professional in all aspects. I have filmed and edited several videos and I would be proud of this work. Well done.
Thanks for your comments
the content is good, the filming great, commentary slow but quirky. However the whole film is painfully slo-o-o-owww. It would be much improved with editing out half the film and being shorter. Easily done and keeping the same information.
Patricia Hope I think He intentionally made it this long to give people a better sense of how long it takes to cycle the wheel.
Patricia Hope
No it wouldn't. I hate the MTV two second attention span style flipping views all over the place so you can't see what is really going on. No thanks.
Patricia Hope
No it wouldn't. I hate the MTV two second attention span style flipping views all over the place so you can't see what is really going on. No thanks.
This is a fascinating piece of engineering! Amazing!
Just imagine how would’ve been the world without ENGINEERS!!!!
Salute
Visited the Wheel in the summer of 2003. Most interesting. The chute passes beneath Rough Castle in the Antonine Wall.
One of the aspects I find truly amazing is the really low horsepower required to raise the ship- 30 HP!
Great engineering and visually appealing! Well done Scots!
I thought he said "13.2hp". Thanks for the clarification.
Yes, Scottish horses are really lazy. They have to take that into account.
. . . and they pay for it using _LEEEGAL TENDA!_
Balance, and the Archimedes principle which he mentioned. Ingenious, but only part of pre-existing Nature.
The two flails are always in equilibrium, the 30 HP "only" serve to give the speed of rotation of the whole (and to fight as the friction). if I am not mistaken, an empty or loaded boat, it is a volume of water that varies according to the law of Archimedes.
I'd be interested in specifications what type of steel,stainless,what grades,gauges,etc.& who manufactured the steel. A civil engineering marvel!
Good show! Narrator makes this sound almost like a sermon, though.
The mornfull music and weighty voiceover makes it seem like this is the desciption of a long lost wonder.
This is amazing! I never heard of it before. I was thinking different boats would cause differences in weight until he talked about displacement. Nice presentation.
Its everytime the same weigth on both sides - phisikal principal.
It dosent matter if there are 3 heavy botes on one side and non on the other. The amought of water is fixing it if the level is the same.
@@JK-ku2mj Every boat displaces its one weight in water Archimedes principle!
Doing Falkirk proud. We are lucky to have the wheel here and those naughty Kelpies :)
This is absolutely incredible! Although it irks me that I have never heard of it before. Great video & audio too. Thank you so much for posting this.
Pretty clever, amazing that it only needs 22 kW to operate. I just wish you'd cut out the background music.
Believe me just click playback speed into 1.5x
They speak the truth
Thanks for the tip. I thought I was at a funeral.
Go to 2!
His voice and Scottish brogue were beautiful to me. I liked it in regular speed.
My gosh I had to watch it three times at high speed before I understood what was going on. Definitely not an engineer.
Absolutely incredible feat of engineering. This should be listed as one the wonders of the world- right up there with The Lighthouse of Alexandria or the Temple of Artemis.
This would have been a little better video if it showed the boat leave the wheel and enter the next canal. Otherwise, nice job.
Fascinating it is good to see geometry, mechanics & Archimedes principles come together as a working sculpture.
Absolutely lovely! Creative, efficient - very impressive! I love the Scottish speech but I do appreciate the narrator speaking slowly, too.
I turned on Closed Captioning while watching the video. The CC AI had more trouble understanding the Scottish accent than I did! Maybe that's because my ancestry is 50% Scottish!
Truly an engineering marvel
Seems excessive, but that’s what makes it great.
wonderful achievement, Archimedes would be proud !!!
I stupidly wondered how forces would differ with heavier and lighter boats, then the narrator pointed out that the displacement of water keeps the loads balanced. Simply brilliant.
Yeah, i was thinking of the same thing.
good application of Archimedes' principle
Docktor Jim
i heard it took 900 "imperial-gallons" of Scotch drank by workers to build the lift...nice job mates ( chow )
displacement isnt exact weight for weight ..but close enough ahahhahaha
What a brilliant concept, beautifully built. A perfect application of Archimedes' Law.
WOW!!! The engineers in Scotland are brilliant! This is truly a marvel and artwork in motion. Hats of to you guys.
They are Scotty , Enterprise Engineer Star Trek. Tony Kettle,North of England, so English. The wheel constructed in that well known Scottish County, Derbyshire. In case you dont know where that is, its England.
Wow! Very impressive!!!
Thanks Limmy
I'm crap at math but marvel at what engineers can do.
+Michael D. Scots where good engineers in the past look up Stirling hot air engine runs on air
English Engineers can do you mean
this is an engineering marvel and its energy efficient way to go
When art and function marry, it is a good day... :)
My uncle helped design this
really? 😱
Stoica Maria yeah - well sort of, he's a civil engineer so he helped with the maths and structural design
+tralnok I'll let him know that ;)
Good for you
your uncle is a true genius
What a marvel! Best narrative
I can die happy now, I've found the perfect video. Thanks, Scottish God.
Johnny Canal approves this method of boat lift.
Ach, aigh Cannough change the laws of physics Captain!
-Scotty
That's an amazing engineering feat
144 dislike....hmm... sorry but I foind this bloody brilliant!
MrLewooz Whi cares
MrLewooz I dislike the music being so loud when the narrator is speaking. That's probably why the hundreds of others dislike it, too. Other than that it was great.
MrLewooz - concur....
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On 29 Jan 2019 I noted this was viewed 2,775,255 times. With 9.3K thumbs up and 1.0K thumbs down. 821 comments before mine.(just posted that info to document ... one of my quirks)
Yes bloody brilliant... yes.... Engineering Marvel...
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Agree it is hard to understand why so many gave a thumbs down.. perhaps that many can’t comprehend the science and engineering it took to accomplish this..
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Nope not a thrill ride, or catchy music, ... no lasers, CGI graphics, or explosions, .... perhaps those that gave a thumbs down expected to see some mutant zombie alien robot dinosaurs.... .
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Just a video showing something interesting few know about, and fewer get to see .... in real life.
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Wonderful Scotlan !!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I just wrote about this in an application to Purdue University, and I suddenly get this in my recommended. Google, how...
That Person There’s no privacy anymore, guard your identity.
And i just got it
@grodhagen my grandkids watch this Disney cartoon called Bluey, it's really cute... one of the episodes they're teaching the kids to appreciate what they have and not be jealous of others, when the neighbor dog looks over and says "look at the pizza I made with the pizza oven I got from Hammerbarn!', the dad says "Kids, were going to Hammerbarn..."
I told my daughter we need to stock up on supplies because there's another lockdown coming, and there's probably going to be a grid down situation..we're going to wish that we had a pizza oven from Hammerbarn...
Not one minute later, I got a coupon for $5 off a $50 purchase at Lowe's. I haven't seen a commercial for Lowe's, let alone get a coupon to go there, ever😮
And I did say hammer barn, I never said Lowe's I said Hammer Barn...
Great video. Well done
Lovely video! Soothing and educational at the same time. Thank you!
Brilliant *D E S I G N* ✨💖✨👍🏼✨🏆✨👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Truly art in motion, beautiful machinery placed wonderful surroundings. Well done.
Brian W
It's a beautiful surrounding, I grew up there, that area used to be the tar works. ..with the fish works some way back ..the stink could be eye watering.So it's an even more impressive achievement. What happened to the tar pool I fell in?
Another work of engineering Art built by the Butterley company of Ripley in Derbyshire.
Awesome! 👍
your commentary is wonderful. and thanks for including metric.
Or, you know, they could have just had the passengers switch boats. But that would have been too easy and cost-effective.
Lol but why tho when you could make an engineering marvel instead? ... Maybe people want to use their own boat all the way?
Spent 8 minutes watching a fancy axle rotate, not disappointed.
I have got to go and see that!
Awesome video, and very nice explanation, especially on the energy usage (and kettle equivalent 😁) and the Archimedean balancing gondolas.
If I may add a slight critique: The soundtrack (song) is a tad bit too loud. Good song, but the volume is a bit overpowering. Lower it down a bit, and this video is perfect 👍
Simply a briliant and beautiful Construction build upon Archimedes principle of the body mass diplace the Water giving updrift and then allways wil be in balance at the same weight to the Wheel.
It is an amazing engineering feat. But at the end the Boat should be videographed moving to the upper canal
Getting to ride this thing is amazing. I hope I never forget that memory of being able to experience it
His voice seems like he only has a few breaths left to pass on all the secrets of the past.
i guess no one is on a rush there....the narrator just put me to bed..omg...good night everyone
Who is here from IELTS book 11?
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Am I the only one who sees the Pink Floydian influence in this beautiful design?
This is what I call a technological advance! And it is beautiful.
Simple technology but genius.
OK!! Another item added to the bucket-list. :D Just lovely!
that's great for personal watercraft and sightseeing vessels but it would take one a hundred or a thousand times that size to create one for Cargo ships within.. let's say the Panama Canal or any lock that serves Cargo ships.
this is a nice creation just the same.
IELTS Reading test brought me here.
Wonderful video. Who was the design firm? Did they win an award?
Engineering! The GREATEST of all art forms. Thank you Scotland! I love you guys!
Made in England by the Butterley company Ripley Derbyshire.
This is very cool.
Narration shouldn't have reverb/echo. Music is too loud, it drowns out the narrator's voice.
Other than that, wonderful video. Why don't we have engineering like this in America ? Oh ya, I remember... because American politicians and big corporations have to cut corners using inferior materials and pay their labor cheap while putting all the funds for wonderful projects like this into their own pockets... making it to dangerous and unprofitable to bother with.
Great engineering. Wonderful concept. I must visit Scotland some day.
+Vic Krue Thanks for all you tips Vic.
Vic Krue Literally everything I was thinking. Thank you
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Vic Krue Why is there always that one American that must bitch about their country? Just enjoy the video....
@@imokyoureok9201 Made in England.!
Amazing. No leaks
Outstanding! The Builder's Work is never done, and we salute the Engineers of the world.
The narator really makes me sleep, great work
I see this out my window lol
Ochiltree Terrace?
Designed by the English built by the English erected by the English a present to Scotland from England enjoy
U stay in camelon
@@waverunner3911 Scottish Sword...Balls !!.Just counter balance. Just Physics.!...Built in Derby.!
Wowza!
Fantástico Sensacional
Por isso que a engenharia é F👏🏾
Absolutely amazing, it’s the first time i have seen it
Now that is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! Wish I had thought of it.
Im dunkin mccloud of the clan mccloud....this is the only ONE FULLLLKINNNN WHEEELLLL
If I were the engineer there, I would mod the damn thing to go 5x faster.
I shot a vlog in Falkirk and features the wheel. It's an amazing piece of engineering.
Its a calm but fun place to go to
She her home 0:02
Thank you, I enjoyed this gentle and peaceful look at some marvellous engineering.
Yeah, this is a slow video, but damn it's fascinating. I love seeing creative ways engineering and architecture can be combined to solve problems. Far more beautiful than a set of locks in my opinion.
This is amazing, I have never seen anything like this before. The design is absolutely beautiful, and the energy efficiency is really impressive, considering the size. I would have thought it would take far more power.
When you get the balance thing worked out, as you can see, it actually takes very little energy to move a lot of mass.
Its a bit like the cliff railways that work on water just a bit extra water on the going down side and off it goes!
IT is spectacular. I d love to się IT witam my own eyes. Who organize trips?
What a brilliant piece of engineering - well done lads! :)
What a waste of public money on an archaic canal system that almost no-one uses. There’s a lot more pressing things the money could have been spent on.
This kind of thing will pull in tourists and it won’t be such an unused old canal system anymore because of this engineering wonder.