131. How canal lock gates are built, at the Canal & River Trust's Bradley workshop

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Every winter the Canal & River Trust shut parts of the network down for a time in order to do maintenance which often includes taking out broken or old lock gates and replacing them. New lock gates are not something you can just order in from Amazon however, so the CRT have to make their own and in this video I visited their Birmingham workshop to see how the process works.

For a later video showing how old lock gates are removed and new ones installed, see    • 268. Replacing canal lock gates using...  

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