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The archive / Glasson Branch (Lancaster Canal)

Glasson Branch (Lancaster Canal)

Something was shut here on 42% of this cruising season — 97 of its 231 days — across 4 separate closures.

That means a closure somewhere on the canal, not that the whole canal was impassable. Every closure below names the locks or bridges it sat between.

1 closure is still shut now, and 1 of those has no reopening date. Filter to it.

Regions
North West
On record
11 closures

The season, closure by closure

Each row is one closure. A bar starts and ends where the closure did, and its length is how long it ran; dashed bars have not started yet.

2026-03-15one bar is one closure2026-10-31

Every closure on record

Population

Status

Period

2025 season2026 seasonAll time

Duration

Cause

Asset affected

CRT reason

Region

Showing all 10 closures on the Glasson Branch (Lancaster Canal).

10
closures
293
closure-days
242
in cruising season
1
no reopening date
What these figures mean
Population
Which closures a figure counts. All closures is everything; Unplanned, in season drops CRT's scheduled winter programme and any day outside the 15 March to 31 October cruising season; CRT winter programme is that maintenance alone.
Defensible duration
The days between a closure's start and its reopening date, counted only where the dates allow it. A cancelled notice, or one whose reopening precedes its start, has no defensible duration and is in no total.
Closure-days
One day on which one closure was in force. Two closures on the same day are two closure-days; where the question is how long a canal was actually disrupted, overlapping notices are unioned into single intervals.
The season so farweeks with a closure in force
Closures in force each monthclosures active during the month
3
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
2
2
1
0
2
1
1
1
2
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
North West29310
10 results · every closure on the Glasson Branch (Lancaster Canal)Jump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Navigation Closure: Lock 7, Glasson Branch, Lancaster Canal
Repair · Cause not stated · 87 days before this archive
Lock No.7, Glasson Basin Lock2025-02-0327
Lock 1 to Lock 7 Glasson Flight
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock No.1 to Bridge 2, Lock No2 Bridge2026-07-0162
Lock 4
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock No.42026-01-0559
Glasson Branch - Lock 1, near Galgate
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock No.1 to Lock No.62026-01-0539
Between Lock 1 and Lock 6, Glasson Branch
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock No.1 to Lock No.62025-08-0436
Lock 1, Lodge Hill - Lock 6, Glasson Branch, Lancaster Canal
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock No.1 to Lock No.62025-05-0730
Lock 4
Repair · Wear and tear · no reopening date
Lock No.42026-09-0418
Lock 1, Lodge Hill - Lock 6, Glasson Branch, Lancaster Canal
Suspected Vandalism · Vandalism
Lock No.1 to Lock No.62025-05-079
Lock 1 To Lock 6, Glasson Branch
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock No.1 to Lock No.62026-05-128
Glasson Branch, Lancaster
Low Water Levels · Other cause
Glasson Branch (Lancaster Canal) - 001 to Glasson Branch (Lancaster Canal) - 0052026-05-305

Coming up

Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.

1 scheduled.
ClosureFromPlanned
Lock 4, Galgate
Glasson Branch (Lancaster Canal) · Repair
2 November 202646 days

Not counted

Cancelled notices and ones whose dates cannot be right are in no figure on this page. They are kept here because CRT published them.

1 notices excluded from the figures.
NoticeStateStarted
Lock 4, GalgatePublished2 November 2026

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