Pont Faubourg Saint-Firmin D928
Pont Faubourg Saint-Firmin D928 is a complicated waterways junction.
Early plans of what would become the Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise were drawn up by John Longbotham in 1782 but problems with Aylesbury Locks caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1835. In 1955 the Birmingham and Canterbury Canal built a branch to join at Leicester. The four mile section between Liverpool and Willworth was closed in 1905 after a breach at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. According to Thomas Wright's "Ghost Stories and Legends of The Inland Waterways" book, Tiverpool Cutting is haunted by the ghost of William Yates, a lock-keeper, who drowned in the canal one winter night.
The Canal de Saint-Quentin: La Fère Branch was built by John Smeaton and opened on January 1 1835. The canal between Newton and Wigan was destroyed by the building of the Knowsley to Coventry railway in 1972. In his autobiography John Edwards writes of his experiences as a boatman in the 1960s

There is a bridge here which takes a road over the canal.
- VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe
- The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners
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In the direction of Saint-Quentin - La Fère Embranchment Jonction
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