British Waterways Key

Before rushing off to buy keys, be aware that many of the service points are nowhere near roads ...

And the taps are provided for filling boat water tanks, and the costs are covered by the high licence fees that boat owners pay.
 
POI Admin said:
Before rushing off to buy keys, be aware that many of the service points are nowhere near roads ...

And the taps are provided for filling boat water tanks, and the costs are covered by the high licence fees that boat owners pay.
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It probably wouldn't go down to well to be seen lugging cassette's down there either! I think the idea is that keys are available for walkers etc. to use the loo when caught short.
 
mandrake said:
having known some boaters i think the British waterways keys were reserved only for the waterway users and as such were only meant for those people ,they a little different than disabled keys keys for public use as the waterways was private poperty may be wrong but
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Yep I have a key and once again according to this forum I am breaking all the rules....just by wild camping you are breaking some rule somewhere so nobody should go worrying about using some water - same as Harbours - always a tap somewhere. Nobody has ever challenged me yet!
 
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MATS said:
Yep I have a key and once again according to this forum I am breaking all the rules....just by wild camping you are breaking some rule somewhere so nobody should go worrying about using some water - same as Harbours - always a tap somewhere. Nobody has ever challenged me yet!
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dont think i ever said you or anybody has broken any rule ,and ok some wild camping may be against the written rule but not all ,i am over sixty and to tell you the truth i have wild camped as we call it for it must be 50 years in tents cars vans &motorhomes and never been shifted on once .the only thing is if we all went round bragging about this or that then it may or would put people against wild camping i only pointed out that mabey using a waterways key acquired from e.bay or elsewhere may be something that British waterways considered wrong ,we have found out that said charity is selling keys so buy one off them and use it .frankly there is little need to trapes about the country looking for waterway taps when water is available in nearly ever filling station on the planet .so to my mind what is the need for a key.
 
mandrake said:
dont think i ever said you or anybody has broken any rule ,and ok some wild camping may be against the written rule but not all ,i am over sixty and to tell you the truth i have wild camped as we call it for it must be 50 years in tents cars vans &motorhomes and never been shifted on once .the only thing is if we all went round bragging about this or that then it may or would put people against wild camping i only pointed out that mabey using a waterways key acquired from e.bay or elsewhere may be something that British waterways considered wrong ,we have found out that said charity is selling keys so buy one off them and use it .frankly there is little need to trapes about the country looking for waterway taps when water is available in nearly ever filling station on the planet .so to my mind what is the need for a key.
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In this country water is not a problem, but emptying loos is not so easy and I think this is the main advantage of using the service points.
 
Blimey things have changed. I used to work for BW and those keys were almost impossible to get hold of as a member of staff. I mean, I only needed one to get access to structures I was trying to inspect, so it clearly wasn't important.
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