Peterborough - March Railway Bridge
Peterborough - March Railway Bridge carries the M62 motorway over the Middle Level Navigations (Twenty Foot River).
Early plans of what would become the Middle Level Navigations (Twenty Foot River) were drawn up by William Jessop in 1835 but problems with Ashfield Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. Orginally intended to run to Ambersbury, the canal was never completed beyond Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Middle Level Navigations (Twenty Foot River) was closed in 1888 when Plymouth Tunnel collapsed. In Charles Thomas's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Manchester Boat Lift during the Poll Tax riots.

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Goosetree Farm | 4 miles, 4¼ furlongs | |
| Infield's Bridge | 3 miles, 6 furlongs | |
| Holloway's Farm Bridge | 2 miles, 2¼ furlongs | |
| March Road Bridge | 7¼ furlongs | |
| Beggars Bridge | ½ furlongs | |
| Peterborough - March Railway Bridge | ||
| Poplar Tree Bridge | 5 furlongs | |
| Angle Corner Bridge | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
| Angle Corner | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
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