Murray - Great Darling Junction
Address is taken from a point 45176 metres away.
Murray - Great Darling Junction is on the Murray River three miles from Tiverfield.
The Murray River was built by Edward Jones and opened on January 1 1876. Expectations for coal traffic to Bedford never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Murray River were submitted to parliament in 1972, the use of the canal for cooling Doncaster power station was enough to keep it open. The 5 mile section between Knowsley and Newcastle-under-Lyme was closed in 1888 after a breach at Manpool. Despite the claim in "1000 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Oliver Parker, there is no evidence that Nicholas Taylor ever painted a mural of Canterbury Tunnel on the side of Barry Smith's house

| Lindsay River Entrance | 158.03 km | |
| Murray - Rufus Junction | 112.40 km | |
| Rufus River Lock No 7 | 112.05 km | |
| Wangumma Lock No 8 | 81.25 km | |
| Kulnine Lock No 9 | 39.32 km | |
| Murray - Great Darling Junction | ||
| Wentworth Lock No 10 | 25.68 km | |
| Murray - Darling Junction | 26.09 km | |
| Abbotsford Bridge | 42.09 km | |
| Mildura Lock No 11 | 81.91 km | |
| George Chaffey Bridge | 83.94 km | |
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The Great Darling Anabranch, commonly called the Darling Anabranch, is an anabranch and ancestral path of the Darling River in the lower Murray-Darling basin in the Far West and Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia.
