Canal closures

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The archive / River Ouse

River Ouse

0.9 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 0.7–1.1) — 68 days across 5 closures of this 75km canal.

Lengths from CRT's ArcGIS open data, published under the strictest reading of its licence. A notice is attributed to the whole named waterway, not to a point.

Something was shut here on 25% of this cruising season — 57 of its 231 days — across 3 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
6 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 5 closures on the River Ouse.

5
closures
68
closure-days
54
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
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
2
1
1
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 East685
5 results · every closure on the River OuseJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Mechanical Failure at Barmby Tidal Barrage - Now Operational
Repair · Cause not stated · title says reopened
Barmby Tidal Barrage2026-07-1351
Naburn Lock - operational
High Water Levels · Weather · title says reopened
Naburn Large Lock2026-01-2314
CLOSED -Selby Toll Road Bridge - Unable to swing
Maintenance · Cause not stated
Selby Toll Road Bridge2026-06-083
The Official Birthday of his Majesty the King - Royal Salute - Museum Gardens York
Event · Nothing failed
Scarborough Rail Bridge to Lendal Bridge2025-06-14same day
Naburn Lock closed for diving operation to repair the gate chain - Wednesday 17th June 8am - 5pm
Repair · Wear and tear
Naburn Large Lock2026-06-17same day

Coming up

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

1 scheduled.
ClosureFromPlanned
ROYAL SALUTE- THE BIRTHDAY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING
River Ouse · Event
14 November 20260 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
ROYAL SALUTE- THE BIRTHDAY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KINGPublished14 November 2026

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