The Falkirk Wheel - Engineering Marvel

The Falkirk Wheel was designed to lift boats from a lower canal to an upper canal - a vertical distance of 24 meters. It does so marvelously well. Informative viddy.
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It's a very elegant design.  But I have to wonder what the cost justification could be for building it, in an era when canal shipping is a practically dead mode of transportation.  Was this built for some kind of millennium celebration?

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