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1967 British Waterways (Cmnd. 3401) 3 The Government propose that forthcoming legislation should make special provision for two distinct groups of waterways. The first will be those which are to form part of the [British Waterways] Board's commercial division... The second..will be maintained primarily for powered pleasure craft. They can no longer usefully form part of a commercial transport system and they will be known as cruising waterways—or ‘cruiseways’.

1968 Guardian 26 July 4/6 The Leeds-Liverpool canal is classified as a cruiseway for all but eight miles of its length.

1971 Observer 17 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 10/4 Barbara Castle's 1968 Transport Bill, which designated a few miles of the [canal] system as cruiseways.