English: Old Tramroad Bridge, Preston Lack of the money needed to duplicate Rennie's Lune Aqueduct at Lancaster across the River Ribble at Preston caused the proprietors of the Lancaster Canal to settle in 1803 for a 4-mile-long tramroad to connect the two parts of their canal, the South End of which ran from Wigan to Walton Summit near Bamber Bridge and the North End running from Fishergate in Preston to Kendal in Westmorland. This enabled them to build a low-level wooden bridge across the Ribble with inclines both sides to take wagons down from and back up to the canal level. The incline on the north side started on the bridge — the far end two spans can be seen sloping slightly upwards — and continued up through the woods. Two hundred years is a long time for a wooden bridge to survive in a river with powerful currents, especially as it ceased to be used by the tramway around 1860, and more recently it has been replaced by a concrete replica as seen here from the south bank of the river.