An interesting combination here - a pusher tug and barge on a British waterway.
I can't remember taking this photo and found it in the stash of images from an old hard drive crash recovery. The tug looks like a Bantam to me but those weren't pushers - were they?
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Bantam's were very much designed as pusher tugs.
And if ever you feel like building another Bantam, how about trying the prototype? I bet it would get lots of comments about being unrealistic https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/e-c-jones-son-brentford-boatbuilder/
Back when I was a lock keeper on the thames I had the dubious pleasure of telling a tug skipper pushing a similar barge that I'd received complaints about his wash. I did however tell him I'd noted his section time in the reach and that he couldn't possibly have, and that I fully appreciated the problems his vessel might have with wash. He was pleased not to receive a ticket, and nobody could say I'd not carried out my duty!
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