Barge at Marsworth

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Uploaded:: Sep 19, 2009
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Original date:: May 02, 2009

A barge on the Grand Union Canal, Marsworth, Buckinghamshire. 2nd May 2009.

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A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and need to be towed by tugboats or pushed by towboats. Canal barges, towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath, contended with the railway in the early industrial revolution, but were outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of rail.

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Canals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:

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