The team have attended site and to carry out the repairs to the broken paddle, stop planks need to be sourced. These need to be a specific fit tailored to the exact width of the section needed to be repaired so it may take a period of time to produce. This closure will affect skippers coming through for the Marsden flight and any Standedge Tunnel bookings, so please check dates to see if this will affect planned journeys and journeys change be changed online through your accounts or phone 03030 404040 and press the Yorkshire Northeast Option. We will update the notice as soon as we receive any further information on the progress of the repairs.

The team will be attending to Lock 24 east on Tuesday 24th March morning to start on the repairs needed. We will update the notice at the end of the day on Tuesday with the outcome of the repairs undertaken.

The lock has suffered a paddle mechism failure, operatives have attended site and established that it will need stop planks putting in place to allow this to be repaired.

We will update this notice on Monday with more information.