Time for a slight diversion – this day (a Friday) the trains were running normally to both Tring and Wendover, allowing me to take in the partly un-navigable Wendover arm of the canal.
Start of the Wendover Arm at Bulbourne junction
Underneath the first bridge
Overgrown hedges at the side impinge on the path
Gamnel bridge
Flour Mill
Tree blossom after Gamnel bridge
Canal at Tringford pumping station
Remains of the stop lock
Little Tring bridge number 3 (award winning)
Another view of Little Tring bridge number 3 (award winning)
End of the navigation at Little Tring
Canal immediately after the base of works
Pat Saunders bridge
Muddy canal bed at bridge 4
Current location of works just before Chiltern Bridge
£450 per metre of canal for the reinstatement!
Bird of prey hovering over the canal on a hunting session
Clear water showing the recent work below the low water level
This section of the canal was recently re-watered to a low level lending completion of other works
Another blockade to control the water level in this section
Saxon Way bridge
Buckland Wharf bridge
A41 culvert
Looking back towards Upper Icknield Way (A4011)
Wellonhead bridge
Vertical spurs on this overhanging branch
Deliberate narrowing of this section
Harelane bridge
Rothschild bridge
Halton bridge
On the curve at Halton
Perch bridge
Tree blossom overhangs the canal path after Perch bridge
Footbridge 11
Narrow plank bridge (footbridge 11)
End of the navigation just after Wendover basin
No entry – small fenced in culvert