Canal closures

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New Junction Canal

Something was shut here on 12% of this cruising season — 28 of its 231 days — across 11 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
Yorkshire and North East
On record
17 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 17 closures on the New Junction Canal.

17
closures
146
closure-days
21
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
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
2
2
2
1
1
3
0
2
5
1
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 East14617
17 results · every closure on the New Junction CanalJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Sykehouse Lock - Near Thorne
Repair · Wear and tear
Don Aqueduct to New Junction End Culvert2025-11-0346
Don Aqueduct
Maintenance · Wear and tear
Don Aqueduct2025-11-0339
Don Doors and Doncaster Lock - Now OPEN
High Water Levels · Weather · title says reopened
Doncaster Lock2026-02-0525
Sykehouse Road Bridge - Closed
Repair · Wear and tear · no reopening date
Sykehouse Road Bridge 72026-09-1012
Don Doors and Doncaster Lock
High Water Levels · Weather
Doncaster Lock2026-01-2611
Don doors and Doncaster Lock - NOW OPEN
High Water Levels · Weather · title says reopened
Doncaster Lock2026-01-224
Sykehouse Lock Road Bridge- Out of Action
Repair · Wear and tear
Sykehouse Lock2026-04-283
Low Lane Swing Bridge - Fault on Pedestal
Repair · Wear and tear
Low Lane Swing Bridge 22026-07-173
Sykehouse Lock - not working due to a faulty hydraulic unit.
Repair · Wear and tear
Sykehouse Lock2026-08-072
Sykehouse Lock
Maintenance · Nothing failed
Sykehouse Lock2026-07-191
Doncaster Lock & Don Doors - New Junction
High Water Levels · Weather
Doncaster Lock2025-09-21same day
Don Aqueduct - Essential Works Required w3w ///pint.motorist.bulbs
Repair · Wear and tear
Don Aqueduct2026-05-07same day
Planned Closure - Don Aqueduct (Cancelled)
Inspections · Nothing failed
Don Aqueduct2026-05-18same day
Sykehouse Lift Bridge not working - burst pipe from the Hydraulic unit. working
Repair · Wear and tear
Sykehouse Lock Bridge 52026-08-04same day
Northern Powergrid planned outage at Kirkhouse Green Bridge on the Wednesday 19th August from 08:30hrs to 16:30hrs
Information · Nothing failed
Kirkhouse Green Lift Bridge 42026-08-19same day
Northern Powergrid Planned outage at Low Lane Bridge on Wed 19th August from 08:30 - 16:30hrs
Information · Nothing failed
Low Lane Swing Bridge 22026-08-19same day
Northern Powergrid planned outage to Top Lane Bridge on the Wednesday 19th August from 08:30hrs - 16:30hrs
Information · Nothing failed
Top Lane Lift Bridge 32026-08-19same day

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