Inclined plane on Marne-Rhine Canal

An inclined plane is a system used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2502x1638, 1664 KB) Other versions Originally from fr. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2502x1638, 1664 KB) Other versions Originally from fr. ... The Marne-Rhine Canal at Niderviller, Moselle. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Channel (geography). ...

Typically, such a feature consists of a slope, up which there are two sets of rail tracks, and boats are raised between different levels by sailing into giant water-filled tanks, or caissons, which have wheels on the bottom and watertight doors at each end, and which are perpendicular to the slope. These are then drawn up or down hill on the rails, usually by means of cables being pulled by a stationary engine. In almost all designs two caissons are used, one going up and one down, to act as counterweights to make the system more efficient. When the caisson has reached the top or bottom of the slope, the doors are opened and the boat leaves. On some canals an inclined plane was used just to the transfer the loads up or down to the boats on a rail system. Rail tracks. ... A caisson is: In engineering, a retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier. ... A stationary engine is an engine that does not move. ...

Near Coalisland, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, a series of inclined planes or 'dry wherries' were used to connect adjoining canal sections on Dukarts Canal, an extension of the Coalisland Canal. The system was ahead of its time and didn't work. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Omagh Area: 3,155 km² Population (est. ... Motto: (Latin) Who will separate us?[1] Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official language(s) English (de facto), Irish, Ulster Scots3, Northern Ireland Sign Language, Irish Sign Language Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the... Coalisland Canal (sometimes known as The Tyrone Navigation) is a canal in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and is about four and a half miles long. ...

An inclined plane is quicker, and wastes less water, than a flight of canal locks, but is more costly to install and run. It can be considered a specialist type of funicular railway. Canal locks in England. ... Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California with gantlet track configuration Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with full length parallel tracks The Gütschbahn in Lucerne, Switzerland – from an 1893 guidebook A funicular, also called funicular railway, inclined railway, inclined plane, or, in the United Kingdom, a cliff railway, is a system of...

Timeline

• 1773 John Edyvean proposes a canal using inclined planes on the St. Columb Canal in Cornwall, UK.
• 1788 An inclined plane is used for the first time to raise canal boats, on England's Ketley Canal. [1]
• 1792 William Reynolds of Ketley Ironworks constructed several inclined planes on the Shropshire Canal. [2]
• 1793 American born inventor Robert Fulton wrote a letter to Lord Stanhope suggesting inclined planes instead of locks for Bude Canal in Cornwall. Lord Stanhope replied saying his idea for working the plane had already been thought of by Edmund Leach.
• 1794 Robert Fulton took out a British patent (# 1988), for improvements to inclined planes including a double inclined plane system to be used to raise canal boats without locks.
• 1800 Francis Henry Egerton, eighth Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829) wrote 'The Description of the Inclined Plane at Walkden Moor. (Lancashire)' [3]
• 1827 The Rolle Canal includes an inclined plane
• 1801 Inclined plane built on the Somersetshire Coal Canal [4]
• 1832 Mrs. Frances Trollope*[5], publishes in "Domestic Manners of the Americans" her account of a visit the previous year to see one of the inclined planes of the Morris Canal. This waterway, 100 miles long, connected the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, rising more than 1400 feet by means of a series of inclined planes.
• 1900 Foxton Inclined Plane was built.

John Edyvean was an Cornish Enginneer who invented the inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for locks on the canal system. ... St. ... Ketley Canal was a tuboat canal that ran about 1. ... There have been several historical figures named William Reynolds. ... Map sources for Ketley at grid reference SJ676109 Ketley is a suburb of the new town of Telford in Shropshire, England. ... Shropshire (alternatively Salop or abbreviated Shrops) is an English county in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. ... Robert Fulton Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was a U.S. engineer and inventor, who was widely credited with developing the first steam-powered ship marked as a commercial success. ... Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (August 3, 1753 – December 15, 1816) was a British statesman and scientist. ... The Bude Canal was originally planed as a highly ambitious project to build about 95 miles of canal for taking mineral rich sand from Bude, England to the Cornish hinterland to improve the quality of the land. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (November 7, 1910 – January 6, 1989) was a British anthropologist. ... Robert Fulton Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was a U.S. engineer and inventor, who was widely credited with developing the first steam-powered ship marked as a commercial success. ... Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756 - February 12, 1829) was a noted British eccentric. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Rolle Canal in (also know as the Torrington canal) North Devon, England runs from Landcross, following the river Torridge to the limekilns at Rosemoor. ... The Somerset Coal Canal (otherwise the Somersetshire Coal Canal) was a narrow canal from Paulton to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal so giving ready access from the coal fields of Somerset, which at their peak contained 80 collieries, to London. ... Frances Trollope (1780–1863) was an English novelist and miscellaneous writer who wrote under the name Fanny Trollope. ... Domestic Manners of the Americans is a novel by Fanny Trollope. ... The Morris Canal was a canal and series of water-driven inclined plane railroads that ran across northern New Jersey in the United States from the middle of the 19th century until the 1920s. ... The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ... The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. ... Upper staircase of Foxton Locks Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two staircases each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 5 km west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton. ...

Other examples

With caissons

The inclined plane of Ronquières

• The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Washington, D.C. later had an inclined plane built to move boats into the Potomac River so that they could bypass Georgetown which was becoming congested with traffic. The inclined plane was two miles upriver from Georgetown.
• Foxton Inclined Plane
• The inclined plane of Ronquières
• The electric "ship elevator" at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam

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Without caissons

Inclined plane on the Elbląg Canal, showing a vessel entering the cradle.

Cradle starting its climb on an inclined plane of the Elbląg Canal.

There are also inclined planes without a tank or caisson, instead carrying vessels up out of the water cradled in slings or resting on their keels. In a few cases the boats were permanently fitted with wheels. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 1132 KB) Photo from German wikipedia, there tagged by its creator as public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 1132 KB) Photo from German wikipedia, there tagged by its creator as public domain. ... ElblÄ…g Canal ElblÄ…g Canal (Polish: , German: ) is a canal in Poland, in Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, 80. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 1365 KB) Photo from German wikipedia, there tagged by its creator as public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 1365 KB) Photo from German wikipedia, there tagged by its creator as public domain. ... ElblÄ…g Canal ElblÄ…g Canal (Polish: , German: ) is a canal in Poland, in Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, 80. ...

• Big Chute Marine Railway on the Trent-and-Severn-Waterway
• Bude Canal in Cornwall
• Elbląg Canal between Elbląg and Ostróda in Poland
• Hay Inclined Plane
• St. Columb Canal built by John Edyvean
• Trench Inclined Plane on the Shrewsbury Canal

Big Chute Marine Railway is a ship lift and lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. ... Lock One on the Trent-Severn Waterway This article is not about the British company Severn Trent Water. ... The Bude Canal was originally planed as a highly ambitious project to build about 95 miles of canal for taking mineral rich sand from Bude, England to the Cornish hinterland to improve the quality of the land. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Elbląg Canal Elbląg Canal (Polish: , German: ) is a canal in Poland, in Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, 80. ... Elbląg (IPA: ; German: ) is a city in northern Poland with 130,000 inhabitants. ... Ostróda Ostróda (former German: ) is a town in Ostróda County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, with 33,603 inhabitants as of January 1, 2005. ... The Hay Inclined Plane is an example of a Canal inclined plane. ... St. ... John Edyvean was an Cornish Enginneer who invented the inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for locks on the canal system. ... Trench is a suburb of the new town of Telford in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. ... The Shrewsbury Canal was a canal in Shropshire, England. ...

External links

• Article on the C & O incline plane
• Photo of St Louis-Arzviller Inclined Plane, Canal de La Marne au Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, France
• Second photo of St Louis-Arzviller Inclined Plane
• The inclined plane of Ronquières (official site)
• Ronquières Inclined Plane
• Photos of Ronquières Inclined Plane

The Marne-Rhine Canal at Niderviller, Moselle. ... Imperial Province of Elsaß-Lothringen Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsaß-Lothringen) was a territory that used to be disputed between France and Germany, but is currently a part of France and has been since World War II. The territory, composed of Alsace and parts of Lorraine, belonged to...

See also

• Boat lift
• Funicular

Strépy-Thieu boat lift (Belgium). ... Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California with gantlet track configuration Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with full length parallel tracks The Gütschbahn in Lucerne, Switzerland – from an 1893 guidebook A funicular, also called funicular railway, inclined railway, inclined plane, or, in the United Kingdom, a cliff railway, is a system of...

Further reading

• Canal lifts and inclines of the world by Hans-Joachim Uhlemann, translated & edited by Mike Clarke. Published by Internat, 2002. ISBN 0-9543181-1-0.
• Canal Inclines and Lifts by David Tew, Published by Sutton Books, 1984. ISBN 0-86299-031-9.