bridge 11a?

Sunday, 08 February 2009 21:43

Let me say at the outset, this blog has the potential to be confusing, but if you like a puzzle, read on...

BW (British Waterways) have set themselves the target of labelling every bridge on the canals - an admirable idea. Where a bridge doesn't have a number, temporary A4 boards on a stake have been posted (sorry about the pun! - gettit?) Here at Hawkesbury Junction aka Sutton Stop, on the Coventry Canal, we found a duplication - two bridges labelled 11a.

That would have been a simple enough ambiguity to sort out, we thought, but when we looked at the adjacent bridges we wondered if BW really knew what they were doing!

Here's a sketch to explain: Moving from South-west to North-east we have:
road bridge 11 and footbridge 11c


footbridge 11a   (SW of Junction)

and the sign (bottom right above)

then footbridge 11a at the junction      

and finally eastward footbridge 11b

not forgetting its sign                      

Now is that all clear to you? The current sequence is 11, 11c, 11a, 11a, 11b. Now where do you think that logic comes from. PC-ness prevents me from suggesting a source.

Any comments from anyone at BW, I wonder?

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