However, the onward sections from Braunston to Birmingham had been built as ' narrow ' canals – that is, the locks could accommodate only a single narrowboat.

Although the Grand Union company had a number of broad boats built to take advantage of the improvements, they never really caught on and the canal continued to be operated largely by pairs of narrow boats, whose journeys were facilitated by the newly widened locks in which they could breast up.

This arm has seventeen narrow locks as it descends to join the navigable River Nene ( see below ).

Funding to deal with the narrow locks at Watford was not forthcoming and the scheme was aborted.

At Marsworth, about 35 miles ( 56 km ) from Brentford, two arms leave the main line, one to Wendover ( not currently navigable for its full length but being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust ) and the other descends through sixteen narrow locks for 4 miles ( 6 km ) to Aylesbury.

In the context of British Inland Waterways, " narrow boat " refers to the original working boats built in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries for carrying goods on the narrow canals ( where locks and bridge holes would have a minimal MAXIMUM width of ; some locks on the Shropshire Union are even smaller ).

The single word ' narrowboat ' has been adopted by authorities such as the Canal and River Trust and the magazine ' Waterways World ' to refer to all boats built in the style and tradition of the narrow canal locks.

The maximum length is about, the length of most locks on the narrow canals.

Along the route of the canal, there are a total of 54 narrow locks.

700 tonne vessels, designed to make maximum use of the locks, produce considerable wash, and are not as manoeuvrable as a narrow boat.

The narrow locks and bridges are big enough for a single narrowboat ×, while the wide locks can accommodate boats, or two narrowboats next to each other.

This method is useful to produce transitions in value or color within narrow bands, such as the locks of hair in a portrait head.

There can be lengthy delays at busy times but the actual transit should take approximately 45 minutes to one hour to complete ; it is made quicker by the fact that the locks are narrow beam and the gates are light.

By 1897, the Grand Junction Canal Company had acquired several of the canals comprising the Leicester line, and was keen to meet demand from carriers seeking to use wider beam ( 14 ft ) craft, rather than the traditional narrow beam boats, which were the only type the locks could accommodate.

The standard for the dimensions of narrow canal locks was set by Brindley with his first canal locks, those on the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1776.

The narrow locks on the Trent and Mersey limited the size of the boats ( which came to be called narrowboats ), and thus limited the quantity of the cargo they could carry to around thirty tonnes.

This canal had a narrow channel, with many locks, and a shortage of water in the peak section, so the operation of the waterway soon became uneconomic — especially given the rapidly advancing construction of the railway network in the southern German countryside.

The cost of building locks was too great so the 56 locks down to Worcester were built to the narrow specification, with the final two locks connecting to the Severn in Worcester being to allow river craft access to Diglis Basin.

A large picnic area or camping development is most efficient in shape as a square or rectangle several hundred feet in width in preference to a long narrow area less than one hundred feet wide.

It extends, chiefly as a single street, for several miles along a narrow strip

Total railways of 27, 182 km include several track gauges, the most common of which is narrow gauge, with 22, 301 km of track of which 15, 222 km is electrified.

Near their edges, the plateaus are cut by deep canyons, and at several points spectacular waterfalls drop to the narrow coastal plain.

The narrow coastal plain rises very rapidly into several mountain ranges.

The resulting narrow jet of metal can defeat armor several hundred milimeters of RHA equivalent, such as that used in light and medium armored vehicles.

The St. John River itself flows into the Bay of Fundy through a narrow gorge several hundred feet wide at the centre of the city.

The Reversing Falls in Saint John, actually an area of strong rapids, provides one example of the power of these tides ; at every high tide, ocean water is pushed through a narrow gorge in the middle of the city and forces the St. John River to reverse its flow for several hours.

Running from Zonguldak in the west to Rize in the east, the narrow coastal strip widens at several places into fertile, intensely cultivated deltas.

In late spring and summer, for example, several hundred thousand Pacific walruses migrate from the Bering Sea into the Chukchi Sea through the relatively narrow Bering Strait.

The Arab bazaar ( Alcaicería ) is made up of several narrow streets, which start from this place and continue as far as the cathedral

The word comes to English from Norwegian, but related words are used in several Scandinavian languages-in many cases to refer to any long narrow body of water, rather than the more specific meaning it has in English.

The Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad, a narrow gauge train ride from Cripple Creek passes several small ghost towns, goldmines, and glory holes.

The railroad became the Rio Grande Western Railway in 1889 as part of a finance plan to upgrade the line from narrow gauge to standard gauge, and built several branch lines in Utah to reach lucrative coal fields.

As a piece of cutlery or kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines on one end.

On the exterior, the verticality is emphasised in a major way by the towers and spires and in a lesser way by strongly projecting vertical buttresses, by narrow half-columns called attached shafts which often pass through several storeys of the building, by long narrow windows, vertical mouldings around doors and figurative sculpture which emphasises the vertical and is often attenuated.

* Zambia Railways Limited ( ZRL ) — narrow gauge, 846 km Kitwe-Ndola-New Kapiri Mposhi-Kabwe-Lusaka-Livingstone-Zimbabwe with several freight branches mostly in the Copperbelt totalling 427 km including to DR Congo.

Before the construction of several tunnels and modern roads that now connect it to Fujisawa, Ofuna and Zushi, on land it could be entered only through narrow artificial passes, among which the seven most important were called, a name sometimes translated as " Kamakura's Seven Mouths ".

Typical Egyptian usage is to augment a logogram, which may potentially represent several words with different pronunciations, with a determinative to narrow down the meaning, and a phonetic component to specify the pronunciation.

The traditional identification of Mount Sinai as Jabal Musa, one of the peaks at the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula, would imply that the wilderness of Sin was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the promontory of Ras Mohammed ; however, most scholars have since rejected these traditional identifications.

These are mostly in narrow upright formats ; examples are several of Venus, alone or with Cupid, who has sometimes stolen a honeycomb, and complains to Venus that he has been stung by a bee ( Weimar, 1530 ; Berlin, 1534 ).

Each single multilayer reflects a narrow band of light frequencies so several multilayers, each tuned to a different color, are required to reflect white light.

At the present day, the gorge is several hundred feet deep, and the South Branch flows in a narrow channel at the bottom, with almost perpendicular walls of rock on either side.