Ronquières inclined plane
- Ronquières inclined plane
The Ronquières Inclined Plane is a Belgian canal inclined plane on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia built in 1968. It is located in the municipality of Braine-le-Comte, and takes its name from the nearby village of Ronquières.
Description
The Ronquières Inclined Plane has a length of 1,432 m and lifts boats through 67.73 m[cite web |url=http://services-techniques.met.wallonie.be/en/waterways/the_inclined_plane_of_ron/ |title=The inclined plane of Ronquières |accessdate=2008-06-03] vertically. It consists of two large caissons mounted on rails. Each caisson measures 91 m 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 capacityFact|date=June 2008 . Each caisson has a counterweight running in the trough below the rails, which permits the 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 22 minutes.
It takes 50 minutes in total to pass through the 1800 m of the entire structure, including the raised canal bridge at the top end.
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Further reading
*cite book |last= Tew|first= David|title= Canal Inclines and Lifts|origdate= |edition=|date= 1984|publisher= Sutton Books|isbn= 0-8629-9031-9
*cite book |last= Uhlemann|first= Hans-Joachim|title= Canal lifts and inclines of the world|origdate= |edition=English Translation|date= 2002|publisher= Internat|isbn= 0-9543-1811-0
References
ee also
*Strépy-Thieu boat lift
*Article on the French-language Wikipedia from which this article was translated
*Falkirk Wheel
* [http://www.ronquieres.be/ Official Site]
* — with photos
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