Haddiscoe Road Bridge
Haddiscoe Road Bridge carries the road from Oldcroft to Brench over the Norfolk Broads (Haddiscoe Cut).
Early plans for the Norfolk Broads (Haddiscoe Cut) between Wolverhampton and Wycombe were proposed by John Smeaton but languished until Thomas Telford was appointed as secretary to the board in 1876. Orginally intended to run to Bridgend, the canal was never completed beyond Newley. Expectations for coal traffic to Chelmsford were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Conway power station was enough to keep it open. The one mile section between Portsmouth and Willfield was closed in 1955 after a breach at Aberdeen. In his autobiography Arthur Taylor writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s

There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| Yare - New Cut Junction | 2 miles, 1¼ furlongs | |
| Haddiscoe Road Bridge | ||
| Waveney - New Cut Junction | 2 furlongs | |
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![Bascule bridge over Haddiscoe New Cut. This photograph of over 50 years ago by my father shows a cruiser passing along the New Cut, below the bascule bridge which until 1960 carried the road traffic of the A143. The works for the replacement fixed bridge are seen behind, see also [[4298785]]. by Charles Robert Clifton – August 1960](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/30/02/4300221_d87df505_120x120.jpg)
























![The base of Haddiscoe signal box. The base of the signal box, now at the Mangapps railwayTaken from their websiteMANGAPPS JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX, again a GER box built by McKenzie and Holland. This was originally sited at Haddiscoe Junction, the junction of the lines from Norwich to Lowestoft and Beccles to Yarmouth South Town. It became redundant when the latter line was closed in 1959 and was then acquired by the Science Museum at South Kensington. It was dismantled and rebuilt about 70 metres inside the Science Museum's Transport Gallery in 1995, Haddiscoe Junction Box was given to the Mangapps Museum, who then organised its removal from South Kensington which was accomplished on the night of November 5/6 in 1996. The Box has now been permanently installed and is used to display equipment typical of a mechanical 'box of the period'.[[[2662232]]] by Ashley Dace – 08 February 2010](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/69/84/1698458_ba139528_120x120.jpg)