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This is taken from the A156 road bridge crossing the tail of Torksey Lock. The lock allows boats to drop down (occasionally up, see the manual gates facing the other way) from the Fossdyke Navigation into the tidal River Trent. For those cruising the whole of the tidal part of the river it is a useful stopping place, because most boats cannot, or choose not to, negotiate the whole of the river on one flood tide. In that case there are floating pontoons below the lock, seen here with our boat in sole possession, avoiding the need to lock through Torksey Lock and back again. The lock keeper still provides valuable advice on tide times and river conditions though, and phoned ahead to Cromwell Lock to advise his colleague what time to expect us the following day. The tidal river runs across the picture by the white board, and on the far, west bank is Cottam power station.