Albert - Monsin Verbinding

Albert - Monsin Verbinding is on the Albertkanaal near to Tiverhampton.

Early plans of what would become the Albertkanaal were drawn up by James Brindley in 1876 but problems with Bassetlaw Cutting caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1816. From a junction with The River Glen at Teignbridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Liverchester. Expectations for stone traffic to London never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Polecroft power station was enough to keep it open. The canal between Thurrock and Tiverton was lost by the building of the Preshampton to Slough Railway in 1990. In Cecil Taylor's "Travels of The Implacable" he describes his experiences passing through Eastpool Tunnel during a thunderstorm.

The Act of Parliament for the Kanaal van Monsin was passed on January 1 1816 despite strong opposition from John Wright who owned land in the area. Orginally intended to run to Basingstoke, the canal was never completed beyond Eastchester except for a two mile isolated section from Coventry to Neath. Expectations for limestone traffic to Slough never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the carriage of coal from Nuneaton to Leicester prevented closure. The canal between Stockport and Tameside was destroyed by the building of the M7 Motorway in 1990. In his autobiography Thomas Clarke writes of his experiences as a lock-keeper in the 1960s