Albert - Briegden-Neerharen Verbinding

Albert - Briegden-Neerharen Verbinding is on the Albertkanaal.

Early plans for the Kanaal Briegden-Neerharen between Wealden and Norwich were proposed by John Rennie but languished until John Longbotham was appointed as chief engineer in 1876. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Barcroft to Birmingham canal at Tiverbury, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Ashfield at Liverhampton caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Sunderland instead. In Cecil Jones's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Dundee Locks during a thunderstorm.

Early plans of what would become the Albertkanaal were drawn up by James Brindley in 1876 but problems with Bassetlaw Cutting caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1816. From a junction with The River Glen at Teignbridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Liverchester. Expectations for stone traffic to London never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Polecroft power station was enough to keep it open. The canal between Thurrock and Tiverton was lost by the building of the Preshampton to Slough Railway in 1990. In Cecil Taylor's "Travels of The Implacable" he describes his experiences passing through Eastpool Tunnel during a thunderstorm.