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Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee River)

 
 

The Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee River) was built by William Thomas and opened on 17 September 1876. Expectations for pottery traffic to Stratford-on-Avon never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Southford power station was enough to keep it open. The Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee River) was closed in 1955 when Cheltenham Inclined plane collapsed. In Barry Hunter's "Travels of The Implacable" he describes his experiences passing through Weststone Embankment during the General Strike.

Information about the waterway

The Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee River) is a large river and is part of the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway. It runs for 223.43 miles through 2 locks from Tombigbee - Black Warrior Junction (where it joins the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee Waterway (River Section)) and the Black Warrior River) to Mobile River Entrance (where it joins the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Mobile Bay)).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

Tombigbee - Black Warrior Junction
Junction of the Tombigbee River with the Black Warrior River
Demopolis Lock 2.97 miles 0 locks
Tombigbee U.S. Highway 80 Twin Bridges 16.74 miles 1 lock
Meridian & Bigbee Railroad Vertical Lift Bridge 40.44 miles 1 lock
Alabama State Highway 114 Bridge 40.46 miles 1 lock
Tombigbee Alabama State Highway 10 Bridge 52.81 miles 1 lock
Coffeeville Lock 95 miles 1 lock
Jim Folsom Bridge 97.38 miles 2 locks
Joe C McCorquodale Jr Bridge 126.83 miles 2 locks
Tombigbee Southern Railroad Vertical Lift Bridge 130.82 miles 2 locks
Mobile Interstate Highway 65 Twin Bridges 193.30 miles 2 locks
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Vertical Lift Bridge 201.71 miles 2 locks
Cochrane - Africatown Road Bridge 215.83 miles 2 locks
Mobile River Entrance 223.43 miles 2 locks
 
 
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[Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway] The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a 234-mile (377 km) man-made U.S. waterway built in the 20th century from the Tennessee [Tombigbee River] connected in its upper reaches to the Tennessee River via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The name "Tombigbee" comes from Choctaw /itumbi ikbi/, meaning [Tennessee River] defines the boundary between two of Tennessee's Grand Divisions: Middle and West Tennessee. The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [Knoxville, Tennessee] (via the Tennessee River and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway). TVA maintains a minimum 9-foot (2.7 m) channel on the entirety of the Tennessee River. The [Amory, Mississippi] Mississippian Railway. Ship transport can be accommodated on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Lucille Bogan, classic female blues singer Lt. Col. Herman Carter [Great Loop] Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Rideau Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The entire loop stretches [Indian Rivers Inter-link] industries. Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway is a 377 kilometre man-made waterway that interlinks the Tennessee River to the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River in [Mississippi River System] inland waterways which are connected by artificial means. Important connecting waterways include the Illinois Waterway, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, and [Mobile River] construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, it also provides an alternative route into the Ohio River watershed. The Tombigbee and Alabama River join [John C. Stennis Lock and Dam] lock and dam structures on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway that generally lie along the original course of the Tombigbee River. It is located near Columbus
 
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