Riverside Developments Mike Wingfield, our Vice Chairman, has been leading our new Riverside Development Group who have been developing river based ideas. Progress has been made in conjunction with council flood defence work and we are hoping to work with the council’s contractor to develop riverside flood plain gardens to include boat activity. This [...]
MPs visit the Derby Riverboat The support of our local politicians is vital for the long term success of our project. Just before we closed down the boat service for 2024, we gave our local politicians a free trip. We attracted the MPs for Derby South and Derby North, the leader and deputy leader [...]
Chairman's Update - Christmas 2023 Work is underway to deal with the aftermath of the flood waters from Storm Babet. Our teams have been working with insurers to clear out the debris from the three flooded cottages and restoration works are now in progress, with hopes to be back in operation in a couple [...]
DSCT - News in May We were pleased that we were able to train up a team of digger and dumper truck drivers ready for future works. Our thanks go to WRG who provided the trainers and to David Savidge for the organisation. We are now ready for the smaller scale projects that we [...]
Riverboat due to start operations from 1st April In readiness for the new season we have installed a new GPS regulated commentary system. Simon has programmed the system to work out where the riverboat is and control the commentary accordingly. We completed a very pleasant trip upriver to calibrate it and installed a new [...]
**shamelessly copied from a recent press release!** Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Ltd are pleased to announce the opening of the new season to the public of its Derby Riverboat trip service on the river Derwent. Following a sell-out service last year the public have been keen to get back on the river and repeated [...]
Planning Permission is granted for the Riverboat Pontoon We’re delighted to confirm that we were granted planning permission to build the Pontoon on 16th February It has been a trial getting permission as there were many comments to deal with. We had to deal with wildlife conditions, [...]
Eddy Case It was with shock and great sadness that the Trust learnt that Eddy Case had passed away on 28th November at 10 a.m. in hospital. Our sympathies go to his wife Linda. His funeral will be on Wednesday 28th December 2022 at 4.30pm at Trent Valley Crematorium, Derby Road, Aston on Trent. [...]
The season has ended for the Derby Riverboat The weather has turned and the river levels have increased so we have returned the boat to its winter moorings in Darley Abbey. Despite the challenges encountered the operation of the Riverboat has been a real success. We took a risk starting operations before everything was in [...]
Riverboat releases extra availability for Cruises We have finally achieved connection to the grid to allow topping up of power to the Riverboat. With shorter days and extra trips planned this has been critical. We also now have the necessary volunteers licenced and trained to operate a bigger schedule. We have three drivers already [...]