Union Canal (Scotland) - Modern Uses

Modern Uses

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Legend
Forth and Clyde Canal
3 Golden Jubilee Lock
Falkirk Wheel boatlift
Rough Castle Tunnel (365 yd)
1,2 Locks (2)
Greenbank aqueduct
Falkirk Tunnel (696 yd)
60 Glen Low Bridge
55 B805 Blairlodge Bridge
55 B810 Brightons Bridge
Bethankie aqueduct
52a A801 Lathallan Bridge
49 B825 Causewayend Bridge
Avon aqueduct
48 A706 Woodcockdale Bridge
aqueduct
aqueduct
B9080 Pilgrim's Hill aqueduct
Philpstoun aqueduct
38 B8046 Fawnspark Bridge
32 B9080 Winchburgh Bridge
26 A899 Broxburn Bridge
24a A89 Broxburn Road Bridge
21a M8 Motorway Bridge
20a Bathgate Railway Bridge
Almond aqueduct
B7030 Bonnington aqueduct
A720 Scott Russell aqueduct
7b A71 Road Bridge
4d Kingsknowe Rail Bridge
Slateford aqueduct
A70 Prince Charlie aqueduct
Myreside Aqueduct (ESSJR)
Edinburgh Quay
Lochrin Basin

The canal is now used recreationally by canoeists at the Forth Canoe Club and rowers from schools and universities, e.g. the St Andrew Boat Club. The Edinburgh Canal Society, the Bridge 19-40 Canal Society and Linlithgow Union Canal Society promote general use of the canal. They hire rowing boats and narrowboats, and they provide regular boat trips on the canal for the general public. Re-Union Canal Boats operate a social enterprise building and maintaining trip boats.

Scottish Canals (as successor to the British Waterways Board in Scotland) have redeveloped the area at the Edinburgh terminal; their publciity states:

Edinburgh Quay is a major regeneration project centred on the site of Lochrin Basin, in the heart of Scotland's capital. It provides around 90 waterfront apartments, 150,000 square feet of offices and 55,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

Raft races have become an annual event, having been held in Edinburgh from 2007 to 2011, and using found "junk" material for the rafts. The Linlithgow Union Canal Society has been hosting its cardboard boat race for many years, at Linlithgow Basin.

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