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@itsbruce - I'd forgotten about that encounter - but yes, you're right - that was a long time ago.
@Skülly - Off the top of my head, there were 15 locks by the time the canal reached Croydon. At least two of the lock-keepers cottages are still standing.
One of them pictured below.
Correction - a total of 28 locks.
Canal opened in 1809, closed in 1836, three years later the atmospheric railway had been built, but that didn't last very long either, on account of (as @Ludd points out upthread) rats developing a taste for the tallow which was used to soften the leather seal on the vacuum pipe, rendering the locomotive with insufficient power to pull the skin off a rice pudding.
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