Falkirk Wheel Cruises

Cruise on St Magdalene to the Falkirk Wheel in 2012

We are running half day Falkirk Wheel Cruises on three occasions in 2012. Either cruise by canal from Linlithgow Canal Centre to the Falkirk Wheel and return by bus or take the bus from Linlithgow Canal Centre to Falkirk and return by canal.

• Sunday 24th June
• Sunday 29 July
• Sunday 26 August

Leave Manse Road Basin Linlithgow at 9.30 am; Cruise the Union Canal on Saint Magdalene to the Falkirk Wheel and transit to the Forth & Clyde Canal. Spend some time in the Visitor Centre and then return by private bus, arriving in Linlithgow at 3.30 pm.

or

Leave Linlithgow by private bus from Manse Road Basin 12.30pm; arrive at the Falkirk Wheel at 1 pm; leave the Visitor Centre at 2pm and embark on Saint Magdalene for a Falkirk Wheel transit to the Union Canal and then cruise back to Linlithgow, arriving at 6 pm. (All arrival times approximate)

Price £20, including tea/coffee and baking during the cruise.

Booking is essential. Use the on-line boking form, e-mail bookings@lucs.org.uk or phone 0844 272 3812.

The Falkirk Wheel

The Wheel was open by the Queen on 24th May 2002

The Mllennium Link Project restored the Lowland canals city to city and firth to firth. Now the two canals are linked together with the Falkirk Wheel, which has become one of Scotland’s leading visitor attractions. The original eleven locks could not be reinstated so  the world’s first rotating boatlift was built, 115ft high equivalent to eight double decker buses stacked on top of each other. There is a tunnel under the Edinburgh & Glasgow railway  and  the Antonine wall  coming out on the aqueduct to the Wheel