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Wakefield Branch (Aire & Calder)
0.4 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 0.0–0.7) — 5 days across 9 closures of this 14km 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 4% of this cruising season — 8 of its 231 days — across 6 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
- 9 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.
Every closure on record
Showing all 9 closures on the Wakefield Branch (Aire & Calder).
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.
| Notice | Extent | Started | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Road Lock | Wakefield Branch (Aire & Calder) - 007 | 2025-07-06 | 1 |
| Kings Road Lock - Closure | Lock 3, Kings Road Lock | 2026-07-13 | 1 |
| Birkwood Lock - Divers on Site | Lock 2, Birkwood Lock to Lock 6, Woodnook Lock | 2026-07-13 | 1 |
| Lock 6, Woodnook Lock - closed due to a broken collar, gates cannot be operated. OPEN | Lock 6, Woodnook Lock | 2026-07-16 | 1 |
| Woodnook Lock, Wakefield Branch of the Aire and Calder Navigation. | Lock 6, Woodnook Lock | 2026-08-18 | 1 |
| Woodnook Lock | Lock 6, Woodnook Lock | 2025-11-09 | same day |
| Navigation Closure - Wakefield Branch (Aire & Calder), Lock 6, Woodnook Lock, Normanton due to Third Party Works | Lock 6, Woodnook Lock | 2025-12-23 | same day |
| Woodnook Lock - Divers on Site | Lock 6, Woodnook Lock | 2026-07-15 | same day |
| Woodnook Lock | Lock 6, Woodnook Lock | 2026-08-14 | same day |
Showing the 9 longest of 9. Every row links to the notice CRT published.