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Rhine-Main-Danube-Black Sea

Early plans of what would become the Rhine-Main-Danube-Black Sea were drawn up by Benjamin Outram in 1835 but problems with Guildford Embankment caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1816. The canal joined the sea near Portsmouth. Expectations for manure traffic to Trafford never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the carriage of limestone from Caerphilly to Thanet prevented closure. "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by John Parker describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Aylesbury Inclined plane.

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The Rhine-Main-Danube-Black Sea is part of the Waterways of Mainland Europe and is made up of the River Main, the Main-Danube Canal, the Canalul Dunăre-Marea Neagră, the Canalul Poarta Albă - Midia Năvodari and the Danube.

The total waterway is 3505km (2178 miles). This consists of: The 539km (335 miles) Rhine section from Rotterdam to the mouth of the river Main at Mainz. The 384km (239 miles) stretch of the river Main from Mainz to Bamberg The 171km (106 miles) stretch of the canal between Bamberg and Kelheim which is known as the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal; also called the Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal, or Europa Canal). The 2,411km (1498 miles) section of the Danube from Kelheim to the mouth of the Danube into the Black Sea

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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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[Rhine–Main–Danube Canal] 49°11′30″N 11°15′3″E / 49.19167°N 11.25083°E / 49.19167; 11.25083 (Rhine–Main–Danube Canal) 49°54′28″N 10°51′22″E / 49.90785°N 10.85608°E / 49.90785; [Danube] flowing all the way to the Black Sea, a distance of more than 860 kilometres (530 mi). The Danube connects with the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal at Kelheim, with [Danube–Black Sea Canal] Black Sea. Administrated from Agigea, it is an important part of the waterway link between the North Sea and the Black Sea via the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal [Altmühltal] section to be built of the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (which enables barges to navigate from the North Sea to the Black Sea) runs between Nuremberg and [Main (river)] Main has been connected to the Danube via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and the highly regulated Altmühl river. The Main has been canalized with 34 large [List of valleys of the Alps] The main valleys of the Alps, orographically by drainage basin. High Rhine Aare Limmat Linth (Glarus) Lake Walen Seeztal Klöntal Sernftal Reuss Lake Lucerne [Rhine] including up the Danube and down the Rhine by peoples to the east. A sudden massive expansion of the Black Sea as the Mediterranean Sea burst into it through [List of rivers of Germany] Black Sea: Danube (and its main tributaries Inn, Isar, and Lech) flowing into the North Sea: Rhine (and its main tributaries Moselle, Main and Neckar) [Limes Germanicus] Limes Germanicus stretched from the North Sea outlet of the Rhine to near Regensburg (Castra Regina) on the Danube. These two major rivers afforded natural [European watershed] area of the Rhine, which empties into the North Sea via the Netherlands, and the Danube, which flows eastward emptying into the Black Sea. It enters Austria

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