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Canal de la Marne au Rhin

Early plans for the Canal de la Marne au Rhin between Bedford and Bournemouth were proposed at a public meeting at the Plough Inn in Harrogate by James Brindley but languished until Peter Jones was appointed as chief engineer in 1835. From a junction with The Dartford & Crayford Navigation at Solihull the canal ran for 37 miles to Kirklees. Expectations for limestone traffic to Polstan never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Canal de la Marne au Rhin were submitted to parliament in 2001, water transfer to the treatment works at Tiverhampton kept it open. In his autobiography Cecil Edwards writes of his experiences as a lengthsman in the 1960s

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The Canal de la Marne au Rhin is part of the Waterways of Mainland Europe and is made up of the Canal de la Marne au Rhin - Western Section, the Canal de la Marne au Rhin - Eastern Section and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin - Embranchement d’Houdelaincourt.

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The Canal de la Marne au Rhin (Marne–Rhine Canal) is a canal in north-eastern France. It connects the river Marne and the Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne in Vitry-le-François with the port of Strasbourg on the Rhine. The original objective of the canal was to connect Paris and the north of France with Alsace and Lorraine, the Rhine, and Germany. The 313 km (194 mi) long canal was the longest in France when it opened in 1853.

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[Marne–Rhine Canal] The Canal de la Marne au Rhin (Marne–Rhine Canal) is a canal in north-eastern France. It connects the river Marne and the Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne [European Court of Human Rights building] river is crossed by the Canal de la Marne au Rhin. The court was formerly located in a building located just across the canal, which was built in 1965 [Canal de la Meuse] Commercy, and joins the Canal de la Marne au Rhin at Troussey. This canal is 272 kilometres (169 mi) long. For most of its length, the canal is the canalised [Canal de la Bruche] Canal de la Marne au Rhin. Although no longer navigable, the canal is retained in water, and is now managed by the Conseil Départemental du Bas-Rhin. The [List of canals in France] ISBN 9782910185-02-2. "La gestion du Canal de la Bruche" [The management of the Canal Bruche] (in French). Conseil Départemental du Bas-Rhin. Archived from the [Saint-Louis-Arzviller inclined plane] inclined plane is an inclined plane on the Marne-Rhine Canal (French: Canal de la Marne au Rhin) that enables the canal to cross the Vosges Mountains. It is [Canal de la Sarre] The Canal de la Sarre, originally called Canal des Houillères de la Sarre, connects the Canal de la Marne au Rhin in Gondrexange to the canalised river [Toul] Commercy and Nancy, and situated between the Moselle River and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin. Toul was known to the Romans as Tullum Leucorum, and was the [Ill (France)] commercial traffic must use an indirect route from the Canal de la Marne au Rhin to the Canal du Rhone au Rhine via the Port of Strasbourg. Passenger trip boats [Canal inclined plane] & O incline plane Photo of St Louis-Arzviller inclined plane, Canal de La Marne au Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, France Second photo of St Louis-Arzviller inclined

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