Forth and Cart Canal
| Forth and Cart Canal | |
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The confluence of the Rivers Cart and Clyde. The canal followed the course of the road to the east of Clydebank College, in the centre foreground. | |
| Specifications | |
| Maximum boat length | 67 ft 0 in (20.42 m) |
| Maximum boat beam | 15 ft 0 in (4.57 m) |
| Locks | 3 |
| Status | destroyed |
| History | |
| Date of act | 1836 |
| Date of first use | 1840 |
| Date closed | 1893 |
| Geography | |
| Connects to | Forth and Clyde Canal, River Clyde |
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The Forth and Cart Canal was a short 1⁄2-mile (800-metre) link canal which provided a short cut between the Forth and Clyde Canal, at Whitecrook, and the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart. It was intended to provide a transport link between the town of Paisley, the Firth of Forth and Port Dundas, Glasgow, without having to go via Bowling, some 7 miles (11 kilometres) downstream on the Clyde. The Forth and Cart Canal was closed in 1893. Railway works destroyed most of it soon afterwards.