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• Lockage usually takes between 15 and 20 minutes.
• This saved money, but meant that ships did not have to pay lockage charges to reach Highbridge.
• Lockages are scheduled 12 hours a day between the hours of 07 : 00 and 19 : 00 from June 15 to September 15.
• The locks reduce travel time because it enables large commercial tows to go through only one lockage rather than the three locks it replaced.
• Total lockages were 123, of which 30 were for towboats and all others were for wood barges, log rafts, fishing boats, and launches.
• With just two low-tech " lockages, " the canal system had hosted the boats that come for work and those that come for play.
• Having reached Autherley Junction they turned back on the Coventry Canal to use the whole length of the Oxford Canal, avoiding the lockage and industrial scenes of Birmingham.
• In the 1960s the U . S . Army Corps of Engineers began to modernize the locks on the Ohio River and added chambers that permit a typical tow to pass in a single lockage.
• The engineer Rennie designed a canal link from the Monkland Canal to the Clyde in 1797, but it involved vertical interval of lockage and was impossibly expensive; Stevenson prepared a similar scheme later but it too foundered.
• During fiscal year 1902, there were 246 lockages transiting 48, 240 registered tonnage of vessels, carrying 3, 455 tons of freight, including 571 tons of sand and gravel shipped in to repair the locks.
• With the Erie, as with all of the branch canals, water flow was required for several purposes : filling the canal at the beginning of each spring season; water for lockage, i . e ., water loss from higher to lower levels; water loss by seepage through the berm and towpath banks and water diverted for industrial power usage.