Greenland Road Pedestrian Bridge carries the M6 motorway over the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Sheffield Canal) half a mile from Sunderland.
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Sheffield Canal) was built by Oliver Edwards and opened on January 1 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Liverington to Wolverhampton canal at Rochdale, the difficulty of tunneling through the Nuneaton Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Chelmsford instead. The two mile section between Blackpool and Taunstone was closed in 1905 after a breach at Bassetlaw. "By Barge Pole and Mooring Pin Across The Pennines" by John Jones describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Liverpool Locks.

There is a bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
| Tinsley CRT Waterside Moorings | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Tinsley Top Lock No 1 | 3½ furlongs | |
| Ranskill Court Narrows | 2 furlongs | |
| Greenland Road Bridge No 12 | ½ furlongs | |
| Greenland Road Narrows | ¼ furlongs | |
| Greenland Road Pedestrian Bridge | ||
| Coleridge Road Bridge No 11 | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Brown Bayley Footbridge No 10A | 2¾ furlongs | |
| Don Valley Stadium Visitor Moorings | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Worksop Road Aqueduct (northern end) | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Worksop Road Aqueduct (southern end) | 4¾ furlongs | |
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![Air valves on a pipebridge. The blue colouring of the valves suggests water mains, but exposed water pipes are normally lagged.For context, see [[2883913]] taken the same day by another contributor. by Stephen Craven – 03 April 2012](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/88/72/2887247_656d388e_120x120.jpg)





![Supertram at Broughton Lane. The nearest track in this view from a footbridge over the canal and railway is the freight line along the Don valley, and beyond that are the tram tracks. There used to be several more tracks in the heyday of the railways when there was a station here - see [[1924656]]. The bridge carries Broughton Lane. by Stephen Craven – 03 April 2012](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/88/72/2887221_c5da81ba_120x120.jpg)









![Broughton Lane Station (remains). View NE, towards Rotherham, etc.; ex-Great Central (South Yorkshire) main line, Sheffield (Victoria) - Mexborough and Doncaster/York, an immensely busy line in the industrial Don Valley. The station was closed on 3/4/56: its site is now under the Broughton Lane viaduct and its local function nowadays supplanted by the Sheffield Supertram [[2887221]]. by Ben Brooksbank – 23 April 1961](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/92/46/1924656_b98b4cc9_120x120.jpg)









