For many of the locks, you'll need a C & RT Sanitary Station key to operate and they have traffic lights to indicate the status of the lock (except Keadby, Thorne locks and the Tinsley Flight).
Tinsley Flight: Locks are numbered 1 to 12 but numbers 7 & 8 are a single deep lock. Total rise is 70 feet
Lock Gates
Tunnel AqueductOpened in 1885. Originally made up of five sections: The Sheffield Canal, The River Don Navigation, The Stainforth and Keadby Canal and The New Junction Canal, plus The fifth section was the Dearne and Dove Canal which sadly closed 1961.
Today, the sections are (from Sheffield): The Sheffield and Tinsley Canal, The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Canal, The New Junction Canal. The Stainforth and Keadby Canal (including The River Don Navigation) branches off just before the Don Aqueduct and heads East where it jons the River Trent at Gunness.
For the larger locks, each gate and its paddles are controlled from an adjacent console. They are powered up by inserting a Sanitary Station key. An interlock prevents mis-operation.
Detailed instructions are displayed at each console.
At the larger locks used by commercial vessels, recreational boaters are advised to keep clear of large vessels when they are leaving or entering a lock. Where provided, use the shorter leisure boat landings.
A Sanitary Station key is required for the swing bridges on the Stainforth & Keadby Canal. Keadby Lock, which leads to the tidal Trent, is operated by a Lock-Keeper – call 01724 782205 or 07733 124611 24-hours in advance.
Sheffield and Tinsley Canal
Opened 22nd February 1819, running from Sheffield Basin to Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation's where the River Don branches away from the Don Navigation (part of Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation's).
Lock 7 & 8 were reduced to s single deep lock in 1959 to allow for the construction of a new railway bridge.
Like many of the canals, its profitability reduced with the arrival of the railways.
It is a wide-beam canal and deep enough to handle Yorkshire Keels. These were purposely designed to be tough enough for the strong tides on the River Humber. Built with a flat bottom as they often had to spend low tide on a sand bank or mud flat. Large enough for goods cargo on the Humber, but small enough to travel through the locks on many of the canals. The allowed them to carry cargoes direct from suppliers to buyers and retaining a much higher profit margin.
New Junction Canal: Just over five miles and dead straight from the Aire & Calder Main Line to where it junctions to the Stainforth & Keadby Canal. Only one lock on this stretch.
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