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	Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Falkirk Wheel, named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland, is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, which at this point differ by 24 metres, roughly equivalent to the height of an eight story building.
		The Wheel was constructed by Butterley Engineering at Ripley in Derbyshire under Millennium Plans to reconnect the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, mainly for recreational use.
		The wheel rotates together with the axle which is supported by the 4 metre diameter slewing bearings which are fitted to the ends of the axle and have their outer rings mounted on the plinths which in turn are constructed on top of piled foundations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falkirk_Wheel (1200 words)

	Falkirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Falkirk (An Eaglais Bhreac in Scottish Gaelic) is a town in central Scotland.
		The Falkirk Area occupies a central position in Scotland, on the key north-south and east-west motorway and rail routes and within easy reach of Edinburgh and Glasgow airports; Falkirk is well situated both for access from England and for access to other parts of Scotland.
		The Falkirk Wheel, the world's first rotating boatlift, acts as the centrepiece of the restoration of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falkirk (724 words)

	The Falkirk Wheel Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The Falkirk Wheel was opened by the Queen in May 2002.
		At Falkirk the two canals were linked together by a ladder of 11 locks that allowed boats on the Forth and Clyde Canal to climb the 35m to the level of the Union Canal.
		The wheel then rotates, and having descended, what is now the lower gondola opens out into a 100m circular basin whose landscaping carefully conceals its origins as an open cast pit.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /falkirk/falkirkwheel (1019 words)

	Falkirk: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Falkirk is a town in Scotland Scotland quick summary:
		The union canal is a 50 km (31.5 mile) contour canal from lochrin basin in edinburgh to falkirk where it meets the forth and clyde canal....
		The Battle of Falkirk (1298)[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] fought on July 22, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/falkirk.htm (1445 words)

	Falkirk Wheel Boat Lift Guide - Worlds First Rotating Boat Lift - Connecting Forth Clyde - Union Canal - The Millenium ...
		The Falkirk Wheel is an exceptional feat of modern engineering and is already being recognised as an inspirational sculpture for the 21st Century.
		The Falkirk Wheel can carry eight or more boats at a time with a single trip taking about 15 minutes and providing an unforgettable experience and great 'day out' for all the family.
		We are conducting research on the feasibility of operating a guided tour scheme to the Falkirk Wheel and other sites of interest in and around Falkirk - we need your input so please visit our Guided Tours page and please take the time to vote..thank you for assisting us..
	www.falkirk-wheel.com (251 words)

	Bennett Associates - Falkirk Wheel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In some cases the original moving bridges had been replaced by fixed bridges when the canals had fallen into disuse, so Bennett was starting with a blank canvas and having to take into account the fact that its new bridge would need to "re-educate" users to the fact that it was now a moveable structure.
		Replacing the original flight of eleven locks to accommodate a difference in levels between the two canals of some 35 metres, the 'wheel's' futuristic appearance is a triumph of co-operation between the engineers and architects.
		The end result of the close collaboration between architect and engineer on the Falkirk Wheel project is a simple, efficient and effective piece of machinery with all the glamour and visual impact of a piece of modern sculpture.
	www.bennettmg.co.uk /News/news_falkirk_royal_opening.html (405 words)

	The Falkirk Wheel
		The Falkirk Wheel is part of Britain’s largest and most ambitious canal restoration project in recent years.
		After the Falkirk locks were closed the canals continued to operate individually but in the 1960s through navigation ceased when low level roads were built across them in “money saving” construction, rather than building bridges over them and for decades the canals lay virtually abandoned.
		The main drive of the wheel is by ten hydraulic motors that rotate the four metre diameter central axle.
	www.dalefield.com /nzfmm/magazine/FalkirkW.html (914 words)

	Falkirk travel guide - Wikitravel
		Falkirk Grahamston Station which is on the Falkirk, Carronshore loop.
		Falkirk is mid way between Glasgow and Edinburgh and sits between the M8 motorway and the M9 motorway
		Falkirk is service by the Grangmouth Docks on the Forth River where light cargo ships and coastal tankers call.
	wikitravel.org /en/Falkirk (699 words)

	Falkirk Wheel - The World's first rotating boat lifting bridge
		The Wheel (as it is known) is a unique lifting bridge designed to reconnect the Forth and Clyde and Union canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland.
		Construction of the interchange section, which comprises the Wheel, an elevated aqueduct at its upper end and a holding basin at its lower, is being led by a joint venture of Morrison and Bachy-Soletanche.
		The Wheel has an outside diameter of 35m, and comprises two 1.4m wide steel, clawed arms rotating on a 3.5 m diameter axle.
	www.lusas.com /case/bridge/falkirk.html (581 words)

	Edinburgh Student Newspaper : Features : Wheel of fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Wheel was built a few years ago to replace 11 canal locks, making travel between the Union and Forth & Clyde canals a lot simpler; however, as far as I can tell, they took the fun out of it.
		The Falkirk Wheel is like replacing all canvases with paint-by-numbers sheets: sure, some accountant from Leeds could paint a masterpiece just as easily as Van Gogh, but there wouldn’t be any mastery or simple fun in it.
		Twenty minutes later, the Wheel had lifted us all the way to the top, the guide repeating over a loudspeaker the few facts I had already learned from the display, although every time he said something (“The wheel can lift the weight of 100 elephants”) the pensioners oohed and aahed.
	www.studentnewspaper.org /view_article.php?article_id=20050314145716 (906 words)

	Falkirk
		The Falkirk Branch was formed in 1982 with the aim of cruising on the Union Canal.
		After the Trustees of the Seagull Trust had sanctioned the building of a reception centre for the Falkirk Branch a massive fund raising project was instigated and the people of Falkirk and surrounding areas donated a large proportion of the cost of building the Centre.
		On the 24th May 2002 Her Majesty the Queen officially opened the Falkirk Wheel and in doing so the Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde Canal were once again joined by a navigable waterway after a break of seventy years.
	www.seagulltrust.org.uk /html/falkirk.html (2360 words)

	Falkirk Wheel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Falkirk Wheel is the world's only rotating Boat Lift and is used to connect the Forth and Clyde and Union canals in central Scotland.
		Designed to replace a series of lock gates built in the 19th Century - long since demolished and replaced by housing - the Falkirk Wheel is the showpiece of the Millennium Link project where coast-to-coast navigation of the canals has been re-established for the first time in since the 1960's.
		The Falkirk Wheel - the only rotating boatlift in the world - is the linchpin of the £78m Millennium Canal Link project designed to link the Union and Forth and Clyde canals.
	www.falkirk-wheel.com /wheel/falkirk-wheel/wheel.htm (619 words)

	Millenium Wheel - Falkirk
		Four years in the planning, the Wheel is a collaboration between some of the UK's brightest architects and engineers, and is already being hailed as a future international landmark.
		Designed to reconnect the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Wheel is the symbol of the £78 million The Millennium Link, the largest UK canal restoration ever and a national landmark project supported by £32 million from the Millennium Commission.
		The Falkirk Wheel will be the world’s first rotating boat lift and the first boat lift to be built in Britain since Anderton Boat Lift in Cheshire (1875).
	www.sale-associates.com /milleniu.htm (589 words)

	New Wonder of the Waterways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The amazing new Falkirk Wheel, officially opened by the Queen on the 24th May 2002, is part of the £78 million Millennium Link project to restore the Forth & Clyde and the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union canals.
		The Falkirk Wheel is 115 feet (35 metres) high - the equivalent height of eight double decker buses - 115 feet (35 metres) wide and 100 feet (30 metres) long.
		The Falkirk Wheel : Everything you might want to know about the only rotating boat lift in the world.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/New-wonder.htm (416 words)

	Canal Holidays Guide to the Falkirk Wheel and Edinburgh to Glasgow Canal
		The Falkirk Wheel is 115 foot high - the equivalent of eight double-decker buses.
		The Falkirk Wheel is the world's first rotating boat lift and the first boat lift to be built in Britain since the Anderton Boat Lift in Cheshire which dates from 1875.
		The wheel is designed to last for at least the next 120 years.
	www.ukboatingholidays.com /canals/routes/scotland (381 words)

	Pictures of Falkirk, the Falkirk Wheel
		Falkirk is a strange mixture of modern and historic aspects.
		Falkirk is the only town in the world to own the unique Millennium Wheel, the rotating boat elevator.
		Unlike the Millennium Dome expensive fiasco, the Millennium Wheel is a very useful piece of engineering that replaces the old locks that used to connect the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals.
	www.scotland-flavour.co.uk /falkirk.html (224 words)

	Bennett Associates - The Falkirk Wheel Boatlift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before the closure of the canals in the mid 20th century this transfer was achieved by a flight of eleven locks.
		This means the gondolas are now linked by gears to the central axle so that there is a positive drive between axle and gondola, thus avoiding the possible pendulum action of the gondolas during high wind, which may have been the case had the original exemplar design been used.
		Bennetts is also responsible for the detailed design of the operating and rotating mechanism of the complex wheel structure and the mechanical interfaces.
	www.bennettmg.co.uk /Application_Sheets/MS_Falkirk_Wheel.html (516 words)

	Articles - Canal lock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Falkirk Wheel, the world´s first rotating boat lift, acts as the centrepiece of the restoration of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals.
		The spectacular "Wheel" presents the 21st century´s solution to replacing a flight of locks which formerly connected the canals and which were filled in 1930.
		Rarely, an inclined plane, a lift (such as the Anderton Boat Lift), or a similar device (such as the Falkirk Wheel) may be employed instead of a lock.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Canal_lock (2287 words)

	Ardgour
		A friend took me to see the Falkirk Wheel while I was there and I had forgotten that I had mentioned that I would love to see it.
		Also on the outskirts of Falkirk is the well renowned Falkirk Wheel a marvel of engineering and well worth a visit it is magnificent.
		Falkirk used to be the market town for all the villages in the area and cattle were brought from afar in the past.
	www.highlandtraveller.com /wwwboard/falkirk.htm (376 words)

	The Falkirk Ferris Wheel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Located within the proposed "Falkirk Wheel Park" and Marina, the Wheel will replace the flight of eleven locks which operated until the 1930's to transport the boats to and from the Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde Canal.
		The Falkirk Wheel is a world's first and the single largest engineering project in the £78 million scheme to reconnect the two canals.
		The Falkirk Wheel is a fully funded project and will be completed by Easter 2001 to coincide with the completion of the Millennium Link.
	www.gentles.info /link/Concept/Ferris.htm (303 words)

	Falkirk Wheel, Scotland, boat lift, Union Canal
		The Wheel is located at Bonnybridge close to Falkirk and forms the focus for the £84.5m Millennium Link project reconnecting the Forth & Clyde and Union canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh and coast-to-coast across Scotland.
		The unique and fabulous Falkirk Wheel, an iconic fusion of industrial art and engineering innovation, is the world's first and only rotating boat lift.
		At each end of the wheel are two Mini City's, and dead centre of the main section are the two City Color 1800s, mounted in the well at the base of the structure.
	www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk /falkirk_wheel.htm (998 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Falkirk Wheel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		FAMILIES are being invited to join a sponsored canal walk to the Falkirk Wheel this weekend to...
		THE Falkirk Wheel has been voted one of the top seven waterway structures in the UK, only four...
		A FAULT has forced the Falkirk Wheel to close for the third time in a month.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=541 (436 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Falkirk Wheel - Wheel back on roll after vandalism repair work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The wheel, which cost £17 million to build, was badly damaged by vandals who flooded its unique canal boat lift back in April.
		Police have also renewed their appeal for information on who was responsible for forcing open the wheel’s bolted gates, allowing millions of gallons of water to cascade over the 115ft structure.
		The huge wheel, which has attracted 230,000 visitors so far, is the world’s only revolving boat lift and reconnects a canal link between Edinburgh and Glasgow that was severed 40 years ago after 200 years’ use.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=541&id=1138932002 (444 words)

	Flying Boats - The Falkirk Wheel \| Science Buzz
		I was flipping through the December issue of National Geographic yesterday and I came across a short article on this thing called the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland.
		Traffic on the canals decreased progressively as a result of the railway and in 1933 the series of locks connecting the two canals were closed and eventually filled in.
		In May of 2002, the Falkirk Wheel was opened and reconnected the two canals.
	ltc.smm.org /buzz/blog/the_falkirk_wheel (431 words)

	Falkirk Wheel & Millennium Link Resource
		of the Glasgow - Falkirk - Edinburgh corridor.
		August 2001: The Falkirk Wheel, the crane for the heavy lift arrives.
		December 2001: The Falkirk Wheel and Basin from the NW [170kBytes]
	www.gentles.info /link/Main_index.htm#Pictures2001 (2481 words)

	The Falkirk Wheel
		The Wheel simply lifts boats from one level to the other by way of two water-filled gondolas which revolve like a ferris wheel.
		The Union Canal had to be extended at Falkirk; a tunnel, 180 metres long, built under the Antonine Wall and an aqueduct constructed to lead on to the Wheel.
		The Wheel lifts the boat up to the level of the aqueduct, from where it sails through the Roughcastle Tunnel under the Antonine Wall and on to the Union canal.
	www.healthywaymagazine.com /issue33/07_.html (587 words)

	Falkirk Wheel
		In their heyday the Union and Forth and Clyde Canals were joined by a flight of eleven locks from Port Maxwell on the Union Canal to Port Downie on the Forth and Clyde.
		And after many designs had been put forward, this design was the one accepted and on 24th May 2002 the Falkirk Wheel was opened by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II as part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations.
		Once off the Wheel and in the Wheel Basin these five boats tied up alongside each other and toasted the opening of the Falkirk Wheel with a quaich, specially commissioned by British Waterways, containing Rosebank Single Malt Whisky.
	www.seagulltrust.org.uk /html/falkirk_wheel.html (518 words)

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