The River Cart Aqueduct, sometimes known as the Blackhall Bridge, is a railway bridge and former navigable aqueduct in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland...
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Line. This line still uses the River Cart Aqueduct (which it crosses at a skewed angle). This makes the former aqueduct the world's oldest railway bridge...
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the latrines. The River Cart and the White Cart are navigable to Paisley; being blocked in the 1960s, at Sneddon Street, by the aqueduct under the Piazza...
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This list of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom covers aqueducts that have articles in Wikipedia. The actual number of canal aqueducts is much greater...
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Pont du Gard (redirect from Nimes Aqueduct)
Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes). It crosses the river Gardon...
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the Forth and Clyde canal, at Whitecrook, to the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart. Priestley, writing in 1831, said: The first act of...
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The line crosses the White Water of Cart at Blackhall Bridge. This was originally an aqueduct, the River Cart Aqueduct, which had been built for the Ardrossan...
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Hampton Water Treatment Works (category River Thames)
Reservoirs Aqueduct (built 1902) from the King George VI Reservoir (1947) and Staines Reservoirs (1902) which receive their water from the River Thames at...
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Ancient Roman technology (section Aqueducts)
over its buckets from above. This was usually achieved by building an aqueduct above the wheel. Although it is possible to make the overshot water wheel...
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Canal (redirect from Artificial river)
navigable aqueduct – a famous example in Wales is the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (now a UNESCO World Heritage Site) across the valley of the River Dee. Another...
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first with the River Croco near the site of the old Roman fort in Harbutt's Field, and then with the River Wheelock near the aqueduct carrying the Trent...
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Schoharie Creek Aqueduct" HAER No. NY-11, "Erie Canal (Enlarged), Lock Number 18" HAER No. NY-12, "Erie Canal (Enlarged), Upper Mohawk River Aqueduct" HAER No...
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the Worsley Navigable Levels and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. In the post-medieval period, some rivers were canalised for boat traffic. The Exeter Ship Canal...
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the canal was level and required no locks. Six aqueducts were built to allow the canal to cross the rivers Irwell and Tonge and several minor roads. The...
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Kingdom. Significant canal aqueducts are listed under List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom. All bridges are over the River Clyde unless otherwise...
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his cart at the mill of Greet, by the flooding water, he and his horses were drowned. Babbs Mill Lake was created to balance the effect. Rivers of the...
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Sea" would be lower and achievable using existing infrastructure. The aqueduct proposal, and others, hung on the outcome of a feasibility study. The state-appointed...
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(1 mi) of town. The quality of the river's water was not helped by water supply methods. Carters used to drive water carts into the Torrens to refill. To...
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enabling water mains to be carted over a gully, linking Avenue Road and Bay Street Mosman. The single span steel arch aqueduct currently carries three pipes...
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Peasey Beck (category Rivers of Cumbria)
beyond it, Peasey Beck passes under the Lancaster Canal through an aqueduct. The aqueduct dates from around 1818, and consists of two shallow arches, built...
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Scoppio del Carro ("Explosion of the Cart") is a celebration of the First Crusade. During the day of Easter, a cart, which the Florentines call the Brindellone...
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monopoly by landing goods on the banks and into carts, but Fosbrooke used his ferry rope to block the river, and then created a bridge by mooring boats across...
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of its engineering feats; it required the construction of an aqueduct to cross the River Irwell, and a tunnel at Worsley. Its success helped inspire a...
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"Mother Ditch") was a main water aqueduct and irrigation ditch that brought water down to the Pueblo from the Los Angeles River and was close enough to the...
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Risks to the Glen Canyon Dam (redirect from Colorado River Floods of 1983)
inspection. Inspection crews were lowered down the spillway tunnels in a small cart to assess damage. They found that cavitation, a known risk associated with...
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and water supply purposes. Four major state highways and the California Aqueduct traverse the mountains today; these developments have all had significant...
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Theater Domus Eirene Gates and walls Great Cathedral Basilica Small Basilica Aqueduct Pistiros Pliska Pomorie Thracian tomb Preslav Serdika (modern Sofia) Church...
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SS Sir Walter Scott (category Ships built on the River Clyde)
In 1859 Loch Katrine became Glasgow's main water supply, connected by aqueducts and tunnels to the city more than 30 miles (50 kilometres) away through...
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