Canal closures

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Huddersfield Broad Canal

Something was shut here on 27% of this cruising season — 62 of its 231 days — across 8 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.

Nothing is shut on this canal today.

Regions
Yorkshire and North East
On record
13 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

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Showing all 13 closures on the Huddersfield Broad Canal.

13
closures
122
closure-days
67
in cruising season
0
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
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May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
Yorkshire and North East12213
13 results · every closure on the Huddersfield Broad CanalJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Lock 1 - Near Mirfield
Repair · Wear and tear
Bridge 3b, Pipebridge 2 to Lock 12025-11-0346
Lock 2, Colne Bridge Lock - Broken Mechanism, Balance Beam Dropped - Repaired and operational
Repair · Wear and tear · title says reopened
Lock 2, Colne Bridge Lock2026-07-2442
Railway Bridge 2 next to Colne Bridge Lock, Colne Bridge
3rd Party Works · Nothing failed
Lock 2, Colne Bridge Lock to Lock 12025-07-2212
Huddersfield Broad Canal Closure - Reopened
Low Water Levels · Vandalism · title says reopened
Aspley Basin Waste Weir to Bridge 1, Lock 1 (Cooper Bridge)2026-02-264
Navigation Closure - Huddersfield Broad Canal, Between Falls Lock, Lock 8 and Red Doles Lock, Lock 9, Huddersfield - OPEN
Information · Wear and tear
Lock 9, Red Doles Lock to Lock 8, Falls Lock2026-03-063
Tree across the navigation between Lock 9, Red Dole Lock and Bridge 11a, blocking passage. Removed
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 11a, Vine St Accomodation Bridge to Lock 9, Red Doles Lock2026-05-153
Fallen tree blocking navigation at Bridge 3a. Pipebridge 1 - Removed
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 3a, Pipebridge 12026-07-033
Navigation Closure - Huddersfield Broad Canal, Between Falls Lock, Lock 8 and Red Doles Lock, Lock 9, Huddersfield
Low Water Levels · Wear and tear
Lock 9, Red Doles Lock to Lock 8, Falls Lock2026-03-042
Lock 9, Red Doles Lock - Tree fallen across the navigation - REMOVED
Vegetation · Weather
Lock 9, Red Doles Lock2026-05-052
Lock 8 is non operational as replacing the footboard platform, offside tail paddle unable to be used.
Repair · Struck by boat or vehicle · title says reopened
Lock 8, Falls Lock2026-09-072
Loco Liftbridge is out of action - snapped key in lock - Now Operational
Repair · Other cause · title says reopened
Bridge 17, Quay Street Loco Liftbridge2026-04-151
Navigation Restriction - Huddersfield Broad Canal, Between lock 8 and Lock 9, Fartown - Culvert repairs completed at 2pm today - navigation reopen 2pm onwards.
Maintenance · Wear and tear
Lock 9, Red Doles Lock to Lock 8, Falls Lock2026-05-201
Loco Bridge - unoperable due to a key stuck in the lock. - Fixed and operational
Information · Other cause · title says reopened
Bridge 17, Quay Street Loco Liftbridge2026-07-021

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