Canals in the Empire

[Brother Meredith]

WFRP 'River life of the Empire' had a pull out section called 'River folk of the Empire' with nice plans & sections, albiet riverboats and patrol boat. Page 11 also had a stuff on locks with nice picture of an actual lock gate(!) and barge in action. In real life Dutch barges were able to navigate older canals in the UK (especially up from the Thames) just not the later industrial narrow boat ones I guess.

That was my 2nd port of call.
4th Ed WFRP has a similar section in the Enemy Within Companion.

The tunnel is https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/River_of_Echoes but there also another near Ubersreik.

 

[Fighelm]

That was my 2nd port of call.
4th Ed WFRP has a similar section in the Enemy Within Companion.

The tunnel is https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/River_of_Echoes but there also another near Ubersreik.

That's the one of the lock gates! And the plans and elevations! Not sure what's powering that barge through the gates other than water flow as sails furled.
Maybe someone is poling behind at stern. Narrow lock as well, or just small beam on that barge illustration as scraping sides. In the supplement text talks about lock keepers grumpiness (hah!) and cost of damages to locks/time of repair.

In reality 14feet I think was the usual(older) UK canal width for smaller Dutch barges. Industrial Midlands was a narrow 7 feet. I live in South Cumbria and we have the remnants of the Preston/Lancaster canal upto Kendal. Lovely stone bridges along reaches but canal all filled after Crooklands/Stainton & crossed by M6 motorway! Only navigable to Tewitfield locks just north of Carnforth. Massive dead end but fishermen like it. Railways took over less than 10yrs after being built. But what countryside it took in on its serpentine run.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Lovely canal! I walked its length (more than) a decade ago.

Opening the lock gate would likely be enough to get some motion (or it could simply be Warhammer physics at work!!).