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12.12.2002

Two navigable channels passing through Scotland are separated by a difference in water level of 33 meters. In order to allow ships to move from one channel to another, it was decided instead of locks, which take up a lot of space and require a long locking process, to build a kind of rotating elevator.

For four years, two huge wheels with a diameter of 35 meters were erected between the canals, on each of which two "baths" for ships were fixed. Each "bath" holds 300 cubic meters of water and a ship with a carrying capacity of up to 600 tons. Turning the wheel takes less than 5 minutes - and the two channels exchanged ships. Loading and unloading "cradles" lasts approximately 15 minutes.

Previously, a system of 11 locks operated here. Now the journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh has been shortened by a few hours.

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