Scotland Magazine section Scotland Waterways

West from the Falkirk Wheel

Ian R Mitchell explores Scotland’s reborn Forth & Clyde canal

It is easy to close a canal, much harder to re-open it. Finished in the 1790s, the Forth & Clyde Canal was the artery of Scotland’s Industrial Revolution. Largely devoted to carrying commercial freight, as this declined so too did the canal and it was closed in 1962, large sections being subsequentl...

By Ian R Mitchell from Issue 34 published on 30/08/2007