Editing Forth and Clyde Canal (section)

==Run down and revival{{anchor|Forth and Clyde Canal (Extinguishment of Rights of Navigation) Act 1962}}==
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| short_title           = Forth and Clyde Canal (Extinguishment of Rights of Navigation) Act 1962
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| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to extinguish any right of navigation on the Forth and Clyde Canal, and the obligations upon the British Transport Commission to keep that canal open and to maintain it for purposes of navigation.
| year                  = 1962
| citation              = [[10 & 11 Eliz. 2]]. c. 16
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| royal_assent          = 29 March 1962
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| repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977]]
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| status                = repealed
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In 1963 the canal was closed rather than construct a [[motorway]] crossing, and so it became disused and semi-derelict. [[Canal lock]]s in the [[Falkirk]] area on the [[Union Canal (Scotland)|Union Canal]] near the connection to the Forth and Clyde canal had been filled in and built over in the 1930s.

As part of the [[millennium]] celebrations in 2000, [[National Lottery (United Kingdom)|National Lottery]] funds were used to regenerate both canals. A boatlifting device, the [[Falkirk Wheel]], was built to connect the two canals and once more allow boats to travel from the Clyde or Glasgow to Edinburgh, with a new canal connection to the River Carron and hence the River Forth. The Falkirk Wheel opened on 27 May 2002 and is now a tourist attraction.

When the canal was reopened, the Port Dundas branch was reinstated from [[Stockingfield Junction]], where it leaves the main line, to Speirs Wharf, where further progress was blocked by culverts created as part of the M8 Motorway construction and the abortive Maryhill Motorway. A connection from there to Pinkston Basin, which once formed the terminus of the [[Monkland Canal]], was later achieved by the construction of {{convert|330|yd|m}} of new canal and two locks, lowering the level of the canal to enable it to pass beneath existing structures. The project cost £5.6&nbsp;million,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/newsroom/all-press-releases/display/id/1298 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310015036/http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/newsroom/all-press-releases/display/id/1298 |archive-date=10 March 2012 |title=Work Starts on £5.6 Million Canal Link |publisher=British Waterways newsroom |date=24 August 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boatingbusiness.com/news101/industry-news/work_starts_on__and_pound5.6_million_glasgow_canal_link |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504212950/https://www.boatingbusiness.com/news101/industry-news/work_starts_on__and_pound5.6_million_glasgow_canal_link |archive-date=4 May 2021 |url-status=live |title=Work starts on £5.6 million Glasgow canal link |publisher=Boating Business |date=1 September 2004}}</ref> and the first lock and intermediate basin were opened on 29 September 2006. The lock was named Speaker Martin's Lock, after Michael Martin MP, the speaker in the House of Commons who performed the opening ceremony. Opening of the second lock was delayed by a dispute over land ownership.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Waterways World |title=Port Dundas Basin opened |date=November 2006 |issn=0309-1422 |page=52}}</ref>