Grand Union Canal from Charles Street Bridge (G.U. Bridge 48)
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Grand Union Canal from Charles Street Bridge (G.U. Bridge 48) by David Stowell as part of the Geograph project.
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Grand Union Canal from Charles Street Bridge (G.U. Bridge 48)
Image: © David Stowell Taken: 18 Mar 2009
The towpath along the canal is in a good state of repair these days largely due to fibre optic telecommunications! British Waterways were part of a consortium which used the canal towpaths as rights of way to build their own trunk telecommunications network of fibre optic cables serving all the major towns and cities through which the waterways network passes. In order to make the towpaths suitable for this in many cases they had to be repaired, and hence today are kept in good condition as seen here. As a discreet reminder of this use there are almost anonymous grey containers, such as that seen on the right, which house the various fibre optic transmission and access equipment for operating the network.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.287756
Longitude
-1.570408