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13-744: The Hay Inclined Plane is a canal inclined plane in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire , with a height of 207 feet (63 m). It was located at the end of the Shropshire Canal , part of a network of canals that linked the industrial region of east Shropshire with the River Severn . The inclined plane was in operation from 1793 to 1894. It can be visited as part of the Blists Hill Victorian Town and

26-412: A boat. 52°37′16″N 2°27′09″W  /  52.6212°N 2.4525°W  / 52.6212; -2.4525 Canal inclined plane An inclined plane is a type of cable railway used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels. Boats may be conveyed afloat, in caissons , or may be carried in cradles or slings. Inclined planes have evolved over the centuries. Some of

39-401: A steam engine. The main incline rope would then be attached to the cradle and the loaded boat would descend the incline, counterbalanced by an empty boat ascending on the other rail line. The speed would be controlled by a brake on the main winding drum. On reaching the summit a rope from the small winding drum would be attached to the cradle to control its descent into the upper basin. Although

52-600: Is also a waypoint on the South Telford Heritage Trail . The proprietors of the Shropshire Canal held a competition in 1788 to find the best means of raising and lowering heavy weights between the canal and the river Severn. They selected a design by Henry Williams and James Loudon, which was also used at a number of other inclined planes in east Shropshire. Construction of the Hay inclined plane

65-452: Is an electric rack railway . The track gauge of the railway is 9,000 mm ( 29 ft  6 + 5 ⁄ 16  in ), making it the widest gauge railway of any type in the world. Ship lift of Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station The Krasnoyarsk ship lift ( Russian : Судоподъёмник Красноярской ГЭС ) is the only ship lift in Russia. Construction began in 1976 at

78-408: Is lowered below the water level, at which point the ship then enters the lift, and the platform begins to move up the overpass. The ships are transported afloat. At the top of the platform where it meets together with the ship its pulled into the turntable , which moves the lift onto another track, by which the platform is lowered to the upper tail water below the water level. When this is complete,

91-532: The Ironbridge Gorge Museums . The Shropshire Canal used box-shaped tub boats 20 feet (6.1 m) long with a load capacity of 5 tons. Twin railway tracks were laid down the incline. The tub boats ascended and descended the inclined plane on wheeled cradles which ran on the rails. At the bottom of the incline the rails went underwater allowing the cradle to become submerged and the tub boat to either float free or be floated into position. At

104-522: The Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station on the Yenisei River . Operation began in 1982. The boat lift consists of the outer harbor , the bottom of the approach channel, the actual lift and turntable . The platform of the lift moves along the rack railway , with the track gauge of 9 m. The movement is carried out by means of electric drive. In order to load the ship lift, the platform

117-646: The first were used by the Egyptians to bypass waterfalls on the Nile. These consisted of wooden slides covered with silt which reduced friction. The electric inclined plane at the Krasnoyarsk Dam in Divnogorsk , Russia The ship capacity is up to 1500 tons , maximum ship size is 80 by 17 by 2 metres (262.5 ft × 55.8 ft × 6.6 ft) and elevation is 104 metres (341 ft). This

130-454: The industrial area of Blists Hill . In 1861 they opened the Coalport branch line from Wellington to Coalport which passed underneath the Hay inclined plane near Coalport. The last recorded use of the Hay inclined plane was thought to be in 1894 and it was formally closed in 1907. It was restored in 1968 and again in 1975, including the reinstatement of rails, as part of the creation of

143-445: The loaded boats were travelling downhill, and so the plane was mostly worked by gravity, a small steam engine was also provided and drove the winding drums. This was of Adam Heslop's design, a twin-cylindered rotative beam engine , to a design patented in 1790. The remains of the brick boiler house and winding mechanism may be seen at the top of the incline. The system was worked by four men and took around four minutes to raise or lower

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156-401: The top of the incline the rails also started under water then climbed a short slope out of the water to the top of the incline. In operation an empty boat would be loaded into the bottom cradle and a full boat would be loaded into the top cradle. A rope would be attached to the loaded top cradle and it would be drawn out of the water to the top of the incline using a small winding drum driven by

169-629: Was completed in 1793. By 1820 it was in poor condition and substantial repairs were needed. Further repairs were also carried out in the 1840s. In 1857 the Hay inclined plane was taken over by the London and North Western Railway . The following year the LNWR closed the Shropshire canal between the Wrockwardine Wood and Windmill inclined planes, leaving only a short section of canal to serve

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