Installation will consist of upstream and downstream locks connected by 1430-m-long reinforced concrete incline with 5% slope; 2 steel troughs, each 90 m long and 12 mm wide, supported by 59 axles with 4 rail wheels on each axle, will travel along incline; trough can accommodate one 1350 ton barge, or one 600 ton and two 300 ton barges, or four 300 ton barges; structural details of locks and incline are given; electromechanical and hydraulic systems are described.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Incline at Ronquieres on Brussels-Charleroi canal for 1350 ton barges


    Additional title:

    Le plan incline de Ronquieres etc


    Contributors:
    Papault, R. (author)

    Published in:

    Genie Civil ; 141 , n 1


    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    French


    Keywords :


    Canal barges and narrowboats

    Smith, Peter L. | TIBKAT | 1979


    Ringschluss in Charleroi

    Online Contents | 2012


    Model experiments on canal barges

    Koch / Foerster, E. / Kempf, G. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1929


    Model experiments on canal barges

    Koch / Foerster, E. / Kempf, G. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1929


    Die Stadtbahn Charleroi

    Burmeister, Jürgen | IuD Bahn | 1998