Freight Operations

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

Freight & Canal Operations (2007)

All pictures on this page are from 2007

Leeds & Liverpool Short Boat Clitheroe heads east at Warwick Avenue Bridge in January 2007

Scowser at Bulls Bridge in June 2007 collecting a dumb barge before heading westwards towards Uxbridge

Scowser heading westwards from Bulls Bridge towards Uxbridge in June 2007

On the Thames July 2007. Refuse barges making their way eastwards near Blackfriars Bridge

Private contractors' works barge for driving piles. Seen at Burnt Mill on the Stort in August 2007

Private contractors' tug, from Harwich moored at Roydon, Essex, August 2007. This vessel has also been spotted on the River Witham at Boston on work for the Fens Waterway link

Ilda at Camden with crushed plaster for recycling, August 2007

Ilda again! Westbourne Terrace bridge with BW's refuse barge heading westwards, August 2007

Springwell at Kings Wharf, August 2007

Barge loaded with glass destined for the windows in the Guardian newspaper's new HQ at Kings Cross

BW's Pride of London on graffiti contract work for Islington Council, York Way, Kings Cross, October 2007
Years covered in this feature: 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008