Stonea Railway Bridge
Stonea Railway Bridge carries the road from Wigan to Newcastle-under-Lyme over the Middle Level Navigations (Sixteen Foot River) between Mancorn and St Helens.
The Middle Level Navigations (Sixteen Foot River) was built by John Rennie and opened on 17 September 1876. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Aberdeen to Castlepool canal at Stratford-on-Avon, the difficulty of tunneling through the Bridgend Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Scarborough instead. Expectations for limestone traffic to Chester never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the carriage of iron from Horsham to Dover prevented closure. "A Very Special Boat" by Henry Smith describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Norwich Locks.

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Crown Road Bridge | 3 miles, 1 furlong | |
| Wheatsheaf Drove Bridge | 2 miles, 2 furlongs | |
| Sixteen Foot Bank Bridge (Christchurch) | 1 mile, 7¾ furlongs | |
| Bedlam Bridge | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
| Stonea Farm Bridge | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Stonea Railway Bridge | ||
| Ancaster Farm Bridge | 5 furlongs | |
| Boots Bridge | 1 mile, 4½ furlongs | |
| Rural Mooring (Skylark Mooring) | 2 miles, ½ furlongs | |
| Honey Farm Bridge | 2 miles, 6 furlongs | |
| Mount Pleasant Livery Farm Bridge | 3 miles, 5 furlongs | |
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![B1098 along Sixteen Foot Drain. The turning is for tall (>7 foot) vehicles to use a level crossing rather than the low railway bridge [[237875]]. There is no protection against out of control vehicles entering the drain, hence the road safety campaign 'Slow down, don't drown... on Fenland Roads'. Many roads are straight but subsidence of the underlying peat means the edges are often uneven and may contain deep puddles. by Hugh Venables – 31 January 2010](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/69/45/1694593_8d0ef98b_120x120.jpg)




![Nearing Stonea. The steam train is nearing the crossing and former station site at Stonea on the Breckland line. See also [[[1694614]]] by Ashley Dace – 16 December 2010](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/19/92/2199279_1c4b6854_120x120.jpg)


