Wednesday 7th April
Meeting at BellsQuarry village hall from 7:30pm until around 9pm.
Sunday 2nd May
Canal trips from Port Buchan, Broxburn from 1pm until around 4pm.
Wednesday 5th May
Meeting at Bells Mills Wharf (across the bridge from Winchburgh Cemetery) from 7:00pm until around 9pm.
Wednesday 2nd June
Meeting at Bells Mills Wharf (across the bridge from Winchburgh Cemetery) from 7:00pm until around 9pm.
Sunday 6th June
Canal trips from Port Buchan, Broxburn from 1pm until around 4pm.
Saturday 12th June
Canal trips as part of Wester Hailes annual fun day at Quarry Park, Wester Hailes, from 12 until 6pm.
Saturday 26th June
Canal trips as part of Edinburgh Canal Festival takes place at Edinburgh Quay.
Sunday 4th July
Canal trips from Port Buchan, Broxburn from 1pm until around 4pm.
Wednesday 7th July
Meeting at Bells Mills Wharf (across the bridge from Winchburgh Cemetery) from 7:00pm until around 9pm.
Sunday 1st August
Canal trips from Port Buchan, Broxburn from 1pm until around 4pm.
Wednesday 4th August
Meeting at Bells Mills Wharf (across the bridge from Winchburgh Cemetery) from 7:00pm until around 9pm.
Wednesday 1st September
Meeting at Bells Mills Wharf (across the bridge from Winchburgh Cemetery) from 7:00pm until around 9pm.
Sunday 5th September
Canal trips from Port Buchan, Broxburn from 1pm until around 4pm.
Sunday 3rd October
Canal trips from Port Buchan, Broxburn from 1pm until around 4pm.
Wednesday 6th October
Meeting at Winchburgh Community Centre from 7:30pm until around 9pm.
Wednesday 3rd March
Meeting at BellsQuarry village hall from 7:30pm until around 9pm.
Sunday 4th April
Canal trips from Port Buchan, Broxburn from 1pm until around 4pm.
Our main boat is Bluebell, a narrow boat suitable for most canal networks.
Bluebell is 35 feet long, 7 feet wide and has approximately 2 feet draft. It is powered by a Lister SR2 (13BHP@2000RPM) diesel engine
We obtained Bluebell in a delapidated state. It had been sunk and vandalised.
The picture to the left shows how it looks in 2009, fully restored and running with canopies now fitted to the front and rear.
You can read more about Bluebell and our other boat, Roseann on our Boats page.
The Bridge 19-40 Canal Society exists to encourage the people living in the communities alongside our patch of canal to take an interest in the canal and help maintain it as a pleasant amenity.
We focus on the stretch of the Union Canal between Bridge 19 (Just east of the M8), to Bridge 40 (Just west of Philpstoun), which is how the society gets its name. However our main passenger operations run from Port Buchan, just off West Main Street in Broxburn.
You can hire our boats and crew for very reasonable hourly rates. Bluebell will carry up to 12 passengers and we cater for birthday parties and other family celebrations. Contact Ann for details.
You can read all about the Union Canal on a larger scale, by following some of the links to the left, under the heading "Canals in Scotland". For the purposes of this brief description, I'll focus on our patch of the canal between Bridge 19, which is a bridge carrying farm traffic over the canal just West of the magnificent Almond Aquaduct, to Bridge 40 which carries road traffic over the canal.
Bridge 19 is about 10.5 miles from Edinburgh Quay (regarded as the start of the canal), and Bridge 40 is 17.3 miles from Edinburgh Quay, which gives the Bridge 19-40 Society around 7 miles of canal to look after.
The Bridge 19-40 Canal Society is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Edinburgh and it is also a registered charity no SC023110.
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