New Junction Canal
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The New Junction Canal is a canal in South Yorkshire, England. Authorised in 1891 and completed in 2nd January 1905, it was last canal to be built for commercial purposes. The total cost of construction was £300 000. It links the Stainforth and Keadby Canal with the Aire and Calder Navigation and runs in a completely straight line for five and a half miles, with one lock (Sykehouse Lock), five swing or lift bridges and across two aqueducts.
The most notable feature is the complicated operation of the Sykehouse Lock. The lock is automated but it cannot be operated unless the manually operated swing bridge over the top of it is already open.
| Canals on the Yorkshire Ring - anticlockwise from the north |
| Aire and Calder Navigation | Barnsley Canal | Dearne and Dove Canal | Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation | New Junction Canal |
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