Sign for ascending boats

You start from the "penning up" and it goes downhill from there, as it were. Why does stage 1 contemplate entering top chamber when we are trying to work out what to do at the bottom of the flight?

Photograph taken by PeterScott on 3 April 2013 and was added to the database on Thursday the 4th of April, 2013

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This photo is one of 23 of Oddy Staircase Locks Nos 4 and 5 on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds) [Previous | Next]