Canal closures

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The archive / River Trent

River Trent

0.7 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 0.5–0.8) — 64 days across 18 closures of this 96km 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 3% of this cruising season — 7 of its 231 days — across 5 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
East Midlands
On record
18 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 18 closures on the River Trent.

18
closures
64
closure-days
7
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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Whereclosure-days by region
East Midlands6418
18 results · every closure on the River TrentJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Newark Flood Gates
High Water Levels · Weather
Newark Basin Flood Gates2026-02-0617
Newark Flood gates
High Water Levels · Weather
Newark Basin Flood Gates2026-01-0910
Newark Flood Gates
High Water Levels · Weather
Newark Basin Flood Gates2025-12-177
Newark Flood Gates
High Water Levels · Weather
Newark Basin Flood Gates2026-01-286
Cromwell Lock 15
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock 15, Cromwell Lock - Bottom Chamber2025-06-204
Newark Flood Gates
High Water Levels · Weather
Newark Basin Flood Gates2025-12-114
Lock 13 - Newark Town Lock
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 13, Newark Town Lock2026-01-163
Newark Flood Gates
High Water Levels · Weather
Newark Basin Flood Gates2026-01-233
Newark Flood Gates
High Water Levels · Weather
Newark Basin Flood Gates2026-03-023
Newark Flood Gates
High Water Levels · Weather
River Trent - 0452025-11-172
Hazelford Lock - River Trent
Maintenance · Cause not stated
Lock 12, Hazelford Lock2025-05-071
Proposed bridge location is near the Trent Basin (North Bank - Easting 458870, Northing 338836, South Bank, Easting 458863, Northing 338741)
3rd Party Works · Nothing failed
Bridge 13, Lady Bay Bridge to Bridge 13A, Sailing Club Continuation2025-11-101
Lock 13 - Newark Town Lock
Repair · Cause not stated
Lock 13, Newark Town Lock2025-12-281
Newark Town Lock on the River Trent
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 13, Newark Town Lock2026-05-091
Stoke Lock on the River Trent
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 10, Stoke Lock2026-07-181
Newark Nether Lock 14
Repair · Cause not stated
Lock 14, Newark Nether Lock2026-04-21same day
Cromwell Lock 15
Maintenance · Wear and tear
Lock 15, Cromwell Lock - Top Chamber to Lock 15, Cromwell Lock - Bottom Chamber2026-09-08same day
Lock 12, Hazelford Lock
Information · Wear and tear
Lock 12, Hazelford Lock2026-09-12same day

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