Old photos Cambrai |  | The L'escaut canal? the Oise.
If not, there is through? the town of Saint-Quentin, which was by its historical importance. and g? geographic, crossing must?, the channel we want to talk about would appeal? the L'escaut canal? the Oise.
Its origin is situ? e? Cambrai, o? is ach? ve Canalization of upper-Scheldt, it m? I reli? e to r? network of natural or artificial inland waterways in the North and the step-Sicily. His extr? mit? Moreover, situ? e? CHAUNY o? arise two important routes, the lat canal? General? Oise which leads him-m? I? Janville in the channelling of (Oise, and the canal of (Oise?)) (Aisne towards East.)
But the Saint-Quentin canal provides not only, the junction between the high vall? es de l? Scheldt and the oise
A branch to d? BLOB? Bridge Tugny (aisne) which is the origin of the lat canal? General? the sum and towards the sea and the sea; another branch is in d? BLOB? Fargniers, which forms the beginning of the Sambre canal? the Oise.
Although? t? built by small tron? Add-ons, the Saint-Quentin canal was? t? so often restructured? as his books, v? increased that they, pr? feel a large homogeneous? n? it? : This is a path? small section engaged passage in the p? Flemish niches of 310 tons load? es? the sinking of 2.00 m, which pr? represents a d? development of 93 km and has a trac? g? n? winding generally which are? established enough old industries and many cobblestones? rations. It is of course a channel? reach of sharing, which crosses cr land? tac? s and perm? ables and whose slopes and bays in length tr? s variable and g? n? short generally.
It is also a channel whose water supply was always gr? s? serious difficult? s to the ing? engineers responsible? s to exploit.
TR? s damaged? in the premi? re World War 1914-1918, St. Quentin canal has? t? quickly returned to service in 1919 and re? u then many am? improvements, which hooked d? be significantly the capacity? in this way, and, parallel?, to use less p? dire for the Mariner..
Inland waterway park? was d ' elsewhere tr? s r? reduced. The resumption of traffic was quite progressive. It was not until 1949 before the summary of figures? 5 million tonnes again d? pass? |
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