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12 - Keadby to Newark - Tidal River Trent, River Trent Navigation.

Tuesday 30th April 2013

NA got up early and moved the boat down to the water point for a fill up. Lovely sunny day, the wind we had yesterday had died down. NA had a chat with the bloke on the wide beam, they had only recently taken delivery, had not done the Trent before and were going to follow us up to Cromwell, as they wanted to get to Newark. NA said we would go steady timed to get us to Cromwell around HW Cromwell and they should keep up with us. We were called into the lock early around 08:00, the locky said he would let us out as soon as flood started running up. We exited at 08:20, just after Graveller Battlestone shot passed. NA set the revs to 1700, with the idea this would get us up in 7 hours, arriving around high water. Battlestone was out of sight just after the M180 Bridge, the widebeam seem to be lagging a bit by then. We always aim to pass Stockwith and Torksey within 2 and 4 hours. We had lost the widebeam by Stockwith (10:20), but could not afford to slow down seeing as we definitely wanted to arrive at Cromwell at high water, as there had been reports of there being shoals below the lock, from the past floods on the Trent. Gainsborough Arches passed at 10:50, this was around max flood, but fairly calm, compared with past passages up the tidal Trent. Torksey Cut passed at 12:20. We passed Graveller Heather Rose H at Dunham, it must have gone up yesterday afternoon, as we had seen it moored up, fully laden at Whitley Lock two days ago. We arrived at Cromwell at 15:30, exactly 7 hours after departure from Keadby, having not touched the throttle once. The level had gone down about 4 inches by the time we entered the lock. A week or so after Cromwell Lock was shut as another boat had run aground below and Land and Water had been contracted to remove the shoals below the lock. Slow trundle up the Trent, Nether Newark Lock was worked for us (ISTR that it had to be as the electrics were faulty) and we moored up on Newark Visitor Mooring pontoon, in the company of one other boat, at 17:05. That evening was a wander around town, predictably ending up at 'Spoons Steak Night- The Sir John Arderne

Leaving Keadby Lock. New control tower since our last visit.
Tidal River Trent.

Leaving Keadby Lock.
Tidal River Trent.

Barge Battlestone leads the way. Keadby road / rail bridge.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at Keadby road / rail bridge.
Tidal River Trent.

Derrythorpe commercial mooring dolphins.
Tidal River Trent.

By the M180 Bridge, we loose sight of barge Battlestone.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at Derrythorpe.
Tidal River Trent.

West Butterwick disused windmill.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at East Butterwick commercial mooring dolphins.
Tidal River Trent.

Owston Ferry.
Tidal River Trent.

East Stockwith.
Tidal River Trent.

West Stockwith. River Idle Sluices.
Tidal River Trent.

West Stockwith Lock, entrance to Chesterfield Canal.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at West Stockwith.
Tidal River Trent.

West Stockwith, Farmers Jetty.
Tidal River Trent.

Morton Corner, Gainsborough.
Tidal River Trent.

Morton Corner whirlpools.
Tidal River Trent.

Gainsborough.
Tidal River Trent.

Gainsborough visitor moorings.
Tidal River Trent.

Gainsborough Arches.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at Gainsborough Arches.
Tidal River Trent.

Kerry mills at Stoney Bight. Now no longer river fed.
Tidal River Trent.

Gainsborough Railway Bridge.
Tidal River Trent.

The new gas fired West Burton Power Station.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at West Burton Power Station.
Tidal River Trent.

Knaith.
Tidal River Trent.

Littleborough.
Tidal River Trent.

Trent Port / Marton Mill.
Tidal River Trent.

Cottam Power Station.
Tidal River Trent.

Disused Torksey Railway Bridge.
Tidal River Trent.

Torksey Castle.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at Torksey Railway Bridge.
Tidal River Trent.

Torksey Castle undergoing repairs.
Tidal River Trent.

Torksey Cut.
Tidal River Trent.

Torksey Cut, Lock and waiting / visitor moorings.
Tidal River Trent.

Cottam Power Station.
Tidal River Trent.

The first of the sunken islands is visible...the others are not!
Tidal River Trent.

Church Laneham.
Tidal River Trent.

Approaching Dunham Toll Bridge, we pass Heather Rose H.
Tidal River Trent.

Heather Rose H disappears downstream.
Tidal River Trent.

Dunham Toll Bridge.
Tidal River Trent.

Looking back at Dunham Toll Bridge and waiting pontoon.
Tidal River Trent.

Dunham Dubs.
Tidal River Trent.

Fledborough Sunken Islands.
Tidal River Trent.

Fledborough Railway Viaduct.
Tidal River Trent.

Special care at Normanton Sunken Island.
Tidal River Trent.

Passing Normanton Sunken Island.
Tidal River Trent.

Girton Gravel Wharf.
Tidal River Trent.

Old barge forms the bank side at Girton Gravel Wharf.
Tidal River Trent.

South Holme. The stillness of high water.
Tidal River Trent.

Carlton On Trent.
Tidal River Trent.

Old Wharf at Carlton.
Tidal River Trent.

Carlton On Trent.
Tidal River Trent.

Barge Battlestone at the new wharf above Carlton.
Tidal River Trent.

The final approaches to Cromwell.
Tidal River Trent.

Cromwell tidal lock.
Tidal River Trent.

Cromwell Lock.
Tidal River Trent.

Cromwell Lock.
River Trent Navigation.

Exiting Cromwell Lock.
River Trent Navigation.

Looking back at Cromwell Lock.
River Trent Navigation.

The Muskham Ferry pub at North Muskham.
River Trent Navigation.

Looking back at the A1 viaduct.
River Trent Navigation.

Crankley Point, River Trent comes in from the right, the Trent Navigation takes the course of the River Devon to the left.

The new East Coast Mainline bridge over the River Devon.
River Trent Navigation.

The new East Coast Mainline bridge over the River Devon. Newark Nether Lock to left.
River Trent Navigation.

Newark Nether Lock.
River Trent Navigation.

Looking back at the East Coast Mainline bridge.
River Trent Navigation.

Newark Nether Lock.
River Trent Navigation.

Exiting Newark Nether Lock. A46 Viaduct.
River Trent Navigation.

Looking back at the River Devon weir and Newark Nether Lock.
River Trent Navigation.

Approach to Newark.
River Trent Navigation.

Looking back at the A46 Viaduct.
River Trent Navigation.

Newark Castle Marina.
River Trent Navigation.

Newark Visitor Mooring pontoon in the distance.
River Trent Navigation.

Newark Visitor Moorings.
River Trent Navigation.

Newark Castle.
River Trent Navigation.

Newark Lock.
River Trent Navigation.

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