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Ronquieres Inclined Plane

Location: Hainaut, Belgium
Latitude & Longitude: 50.596806, 4.221325
Views: 187   Posted By: bmeyer2 (04/04/2008)
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bmeyer2 (04/04/2008)

"The Ronquieres Inclined Plane has a length of 1,432 m and lifts boats through 68 m vertically. It consists of two large caissons mounted on rails. Each caisson measures 91m long by 12 m wide and has a water depth between 3 and 3.70 m. It can carry one boat of 1,350 tonnes or many smaller boats within the same limits.

Each caisson is pulled by 8 cables wound by a winch with a 5,200 tonne capacity. This permits each caisson to be moved independently of the other.

Each caisson can be moved between the two canal levels at a speed of 1.2 m/s taking about 45 minutes in total."

-Wikipedia

Arnaud (05/09/2008)

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