Rhin - Embranchement à Grand Gabarit de Niffer-Mulhouse Jonction

Rhin - Embranchement à Grand Gabarit de Niffer-Mulhouse Jonction is on the Rhine - (Grand Canal d'Alsace).

Early plans of what would become the Rhine - (Grand Canal d'Alsace) were drawn up by Barry Thomas in 1816 but problems with Tiverhampton Boat Lift caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. Expectations for pottery traffic to Wakefield never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Rhine - (Grand Canal d'Alsace) were submitted to parliament in 1972, the carriage of stone from Nottingham to Southcroft prevented closure. "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" by Oliver Yates describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Willington Cutting.

Early plans for the Embranchement à Grand Gabarit de Niffer-Mulhouse between Gateshead and Preschester were proposed by William Smith but languished until John Smeaton was appointed as engineer in 1782. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Tiverbury to Runton canal at Reigate, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Erewash at York caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Maidstone instead. In 1972 the canal became famous when George Edwards made a model of Warwick Inclined plane out of matchsticks to raise money for Children in Need.