Freight Operations

Coverage of both private and BW workings, not neccesarily always of actual operations

Freight & Canal Operations (2005)

All pictures on this page are from 2005

Griffin at Park Road during graffiti removal works October 2005

'Griffin' at Park Road during graffiti removal works. BW employee Dean is cycling past homeward bound! (He left BW a couple of years ago)

Thats what happens when one has sprayed stuff on the towpath walls - It comes off! Park Road October 2005

So thats what happens when one has sprayed stuff on the walls along the towpath! It comes off! Park Road October 2005

Wood Hall & Heward barge by the Central London Mosque in October 2005

Wood Hall & Heward barge by the Central London Mosque in October 2005. It was assisting in works connected with the building of the latest Nash style mansion alongside the canal

Scowser at St Pancras on an early misty morning in December 2005

Scowser at St Pancras on an early misty morning in December 2005

Above & below: Land & Water operations at Cowley by the Paddington Packet Inn in February 2005

In July 2005 this tug spotted at Uxbridge

And the same day in July 2005 FMC No 64 Baron was spotted with her gunwhales down to canal level loaded with spoil

That unamed tug again this time at Alperton in October 2005, with even less identification than in July!

Scowser and a WHH barge at Powerday's old depot Old Oak in October 2005

Unamed tug at Bulls Bridge in October 2005. Eventually it was painted in Micks Tug's fleet colours

BW kindly helping out on a Saturday during a big effort to clean the River Lee at Markfield Park, October 2005

A xmas view of Cafe Laville with a WHH workboat heading eastwards late one afternoon into Maida Hill tunnel

Xmas Bizarre - workboat at Camden Xmas 2005, no licence, no number, never seen before and never again since! PS it was spotted coming through Camden very late at night on Sunday 14th September 2008
Years covered in this feature: 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008