Llangollen Canal morning, a mail and goods train composed of 16 carriages and two vans, to crash into the breach, killing one and injuring two engine crew. Despite the canal being officially closed, the breach was repaired, so that water could continue to reach the main line at Hurleston. The use of the canal as a water supply channel was further bolstered by an agreement with what became the Mid & South East Cheshire Water Board, who used it to supply water to their Hurleston reservoir, and agreed to maintain it. Although there had been little traffic since the end of the
Horseshoe Falls (Wales) Heritage status because of the bold civil engineering solutions needed to construct a canal with no locks through such difficult terrain. Horseshoe Falls (Wales) Horseshoe Falls (Welsh: "Rhaeadr y Bedol") () is a weir on the River Dee near Llantysilio Hall in Denbighshire, Wales, about north-west of the town of Llangollen. The distinctively shaped weir, which is long, helps create a pool of water that can enter the Llangollen Canal (via an adjacent valve house and flow meter). The canal west of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and the construction of the weir were authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1804