2005
NT0872 : Unlaunching the launch
taken 18 years ago, near to Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland
Unlaunching the launch
When the Union Canal between Edinburgh and Falkirk was re-opened in 2001-2 as part of the Millennium Link canal route across Scotland, West Lothian Council arranged for the building of one of the very few slipways on it at which boats can be launched. This is at Stewartfield, north of Broxburn and opposite a moonscape of waste from former shale mining and oil extraction operations. Here a small canal trip boat is about to be removed from the canal for its winter maintenance. In the far background is Greendykes Road bridge, built as part of the canal's rejuvenation.
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