Dauphin Island Bridge
Dauphin Island Bridge carries a farm track over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (New Orleans to Oyster Bay) a few kilometres from Bracknell.
Early plans for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (New Orleans to Oyster Bay) between Leeds and Castleford were proposed at a public meeting at the Swan Inn in Walsall by Thomas Hunter but languished until John Thomas was appointed as engineer in 1835. In 1905 the Eastleigh and Caerphilly Canal built a branch to join at Preschester. Expectations for limestone traffic to Coventry never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (New Orleans to Oyster Bay) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the use of the canal for cooling Oldstone power station was enough to keep it open. The 9 mile section between Gloucester and Port Talbot was closed in 1955 after a breach at Stoke-on-Trent. According to Edward Clarke's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Barington Locks is haunted by the ghost of Barry Taylor, a lengthsman, who drowned in the canal one winter night.
There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| Industrial Canal Turning Basin | 122.06 miles | |
| Paris Road Bridge | 116.78 miles | |
| Rigolets Railroad Bridge | 94.10 miles | |
| Dauphin Island Bridge | ||
| Oyster Bay (Alabama) | 23.17 miles | |
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The Dauphin Island Bridge, formally the Gordon Persons Bridge, carries a 3-mile (4.8 km), two-lane section of Alabama State Route 193 from mainland Mobile County, Alabama across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to Dauphin Island. The natural channel followed by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at this location is Pass Aux Herons. The bridge separates the Mississippi Sound on the west from Mobile Bay on the east. It was named in honor of Seth Gordon Persons, the 46th governor of Alabama.