Were canal bridges made for this?

Hi, been a bit quiet of late as there has not been much to report until today!

Consider the scene, 1430 hrs, Monday 17th March 2008, quiet little village of Hopwas,

Staffordshire with a canal bridge over the Coventry Canal which carries the A51 road. The bridge has a weight limit of 7.5 tons.

I'm reliably informed that this little lot weighed about 80 tons, it obviously got stuck and closed the road for three and a half hours before they managed to get it moved.

Amazingly it seems that there was no damage caused to the bridge. Those canal engineers of two hundred years ago obviously knew how to make bridges!