Smaller transportation canals can carry barges or narrowboats, while ship canals allow seagoing ships to travel to an inland port ( e. g., Manchester Ship Canal ), or from one sea or ocean to another ( e. g., Caledonian Canal, Panama Canal ).

The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William.

Göta Canal is a sister canal of Caledonian Canal in Scotland, which was also constructed by Thomas Telford.

The economy grew thanks to higher wages, as well as large scale infrastructure spending such as the Caledonian Canal project.

Unlike its predecessors, in which competitors navigated the Caledonian Canal, the 2012 race will entail a complete circumnavigation of Britain making it, without doubt, the toughest endurance powerboat race in the world.

It included the building of the Caledonian Canal along the Great Glen and redesign of sections of the Crinan Canal, some of new roads, over a thousand new bridges ( including the Craigellachie Bridge ), numerous harbour improvements ( including works at Aberdeen, Dundee, Peterhead, Wick, Portmahomack and Banff ), and 32 new churches.

* Glen Loy Aqueduct on the Caledonian Canal ( 1806 )

** Great Glen lochs, the Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness at Inverness.

The Firth of Inverness is rarely identified on modern maps, but forms a connection via the River Ness, Loch Ness and the other lochs of the Great Glen and stretches of the Caledonian Canal with the Firth of Lorne on the west coast of Scotland.

* Caledonian Canal

Locks on the Caledonian Canal in Fort Augustus

* Caledonian Canal, a canal in Scotland which connects the east and west coasts

The canal was designed by John Millington, who acted as engineer for the project, although the actual construction was carried out by Thomas Hughes, who had previously worked on the construction of the Caledonian Canal, the Dingwall Canal and the Union Canal, all in Scotland.

In 1842 an Act of Parliament was obtained authorising the Caledonian Railway to take over the Forth and Clyde Canal along with the Forth and Cart Canal, although this did not take effect until 1853.

The 19th century saw some major new canals such as the Caledonian Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal.

The Caledonian Canal provided a similar function in the Highlands of Scotland.

Seeking a share of the lucrative goods traffic generated by Leith and Granton docks, the Caledonian built a connecting line from Slateford Junction to Haymarket on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, hoping to access the docks over E & G metals.

Arrival at Fort William of the overnight Caledonian Sleeper | sleeper train from London

The Caledonian Canal is a canal in Scotland that connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William.

Locks on the Caledonian Canal at Fort Augustus

From Fort William it follows the line of the Great Glen ( through which the Caledonian Canal also runs ) northeast through Fort Augustus and up the western shore of Loch Ness before ending at junctions with the A9 in Inverness ().

Previous NCFL members include Wick Academy and Fort William who both left to join the Highland Football League and the reserve teams of the Scottish Football League clubs Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County.

The Glen is a natural travelling route in the Highlands of Scotland, which is used by both the Caledonian Canal and A82 road, which link the city of Inverness on the east coast with Fort William on the West.

Loch Linnhe to the south of Fort William is a sea-loch into which both the River Lochy and Caledonian Canal emerge.

Prior to the days of the Highland League and even the North Caledonian League, the Fort probably produced their most famous player to date.

Fort William used to field a reserve team in the North Caledonian Football League, but were forced to scrap this team prior to the 2011-12 season due to a lack of playable pitches in the Fort William area, something which has always plagued the club.

As the first franchisee, National Express ordered a total of 55 Class 170 units from 1999-2004 ( First would receive the last of the units ordered by National Express and would later transfer four units from its Hull Trains subsidiary ) and by 2004, the only slam door services were also the only locomotive hauled services, the Caledonian Sleeper services from London to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William along with a single regional service between Edinburgh Waverley and North Berwick.

Passenger services on the line are operated by First ScotRail: three daily return services between Glasgow Queen Street and Mallaig / Oban, and one nightly ( except Saturdays ) Caledonian Sleeper service between London Euston and Fort William.

After fitting of a new boiler, she steamed down from Fort William to Crinan, from where cruises on the Caledonian Canal have now re-commenced.

Monday to Saturday, northbound, Upper Tyndrum has three services to Mallaig and one service to Fort William ( Highland Caledonian Sleeper ).

* Caledonian Canal, between Inverness and Fort William, Scotland

John MacDonald played for Glasgow Rangers, Charlton Athletic, Barnsley, Scarborough, Ardrieonians, Dumbarton, Fort William and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

Mondays to Saturdays, there are three services to Oban and Mallaig and one service to Fort William ( Highland Caledonian Sleeper ) northbound.

In 1858 Gordon-Cumming went to live at Fort Augustus, Scotland, on the Caledonian Canal, where the exhibition of his trophies attracted many visitors.

The paper moved temporarily in 1942 to the former Caledonian Press offices in Swinton Street ( from where the old Communist Party Sunday Worker edited by William Paul had been printed from 15 March 1925 until 1929 ).

William Adam's obituary in the Caledonian Mercury noted that " it is fortunate he has left behind him some promising young men to carry on what he has so happily begun ".

The Caledonian Railway 60 Class were 4-6-0 passenger engines designed by William Pickersgill and introduced in 1916.

The Caledonian Railway 300 Class were freight 0-6-0 tender engines introduced in 1918 and designed by William Pickersgill.

William Pickersgill's locomotive designs for the Caledonian Railway included:

These names rub shoulders with the more well established firms, which represent traditional sectors of Glasgow's economy, including ; Diageo, Allied Domecq, William Grant & Sons, A. G. Barr, Tennent Caledonian Breweries, Whyte and Mackay, House of Fraser, MacFarlane Group, HarperCollins, John Menzies, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce Aero Engines, Imperial Chemical Industries, Weir Group, and Aggreko.

Sir William served as Governor of the Caledonian Research Foundation from 1990 – 99 and Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland from 1995 – 2000.