The closure of the railway line from Nottingham to Melton Mowbray in 1968 removed the rail services across the River Trent over Ladybay Bridge and the next bridge over the Grantham Canal. Subsequently, both the Trent and canal crossings were converted into roads and the canal culverted. Ever since, there have been suggestions for constructing a new route for the canal re-connecting it to the river. The Polser Route, has survived the critique of time to remain probably the route with the least range of problems. Hopes of the campaigners were raised in 1998, when a group consisting of British Waterways, Volunteer Organisations and Local Authorities submitted a grant application to The Millennium Fund, that included ‘The Polser Brook’ as the connection to the Grantham Canal. Over the years different groups have worked on both a 'green corridor' and a 'green Infrastructure master plan', so as to make the route more appealing to fund. These plans also included the restoration of the Grantham Canal from Gamston to Cotgrave and to protect wildlife sites and include safe recreational links across the A52. Economic conditions at the time resulted in improved trails and paths but nothing changed on the canal Another opportunity may present itself as the prospect of a fourth road crossing, first proposed in the 1930s is again on the planner’s agenda. This is possibly connecting main routes near to Colwick on the north bank and the A52 near Radcliffe on Trent. Major housing development at Tollerton Airfield may also be an opportunity to restructure the road systems in the Gamston area where the canal is crossed by the A52 and also Radcliffe Road in West Bridgford. Such opportunities may help or hinder the restoration of a Trent Link. What the future holds for the Trent Link is difficult to predict. Without it the canal stays landlocked, but there are many locks and bridges to be rebuilt before this beautiful canal is ready to be ‘connected’.