National 5 History: Unit 2 Changing Britain- Canals
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- Canals
- Advantages
- Goods carried cheaply & easily
- Provided jobs: Navvies, engineers, leggers, men to walk horses along banks
- Could carry greater load than ever before
- Horse 1/8th of a tonne
- Barge 50 tonnes
- Leggers
- Legging is a method of moving a boat through a canal tunnel
- Navvies
- Laborers who built the majority of canals: mainly Irish workers
- Engineers
- Could carry greater load than ever before
- Provided jobs: Navvies, engineers, leggers, men to walk horses along banks
- Goods carried cheaply & easily
- Problems
- Slow for passengers, never became a public transport
- Could freeze in winter/dry up in Summer
- Expensive to build
- Tunnels, aquaducts & locks needed
- Aqueduct
- a bridge or viaduct carrying a waterway over a valley or other gap
- Locks
- a short section of a canal or river with gates and sluices at each end which can be opened or closed to change the water level, used for raising and lowering boats.
- Tunnels
- How canals passed through mountains and other land barriers
- Aqueduct
- Tunnels, aquaducts & locks needed
- Expensive to build
- Could freeze in winter/dry up in Summer
- Slow for passengers, never became a public transport
- Why did Canals decline?
- Canals declined after 1840s due to competition from railways
- Very slow means of transport
- Advantages
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