Freeth Bridge

Freeth Bridge on the Tame Valley Canal, i must get around to walking along the top of this bridge one day, now closed to traffic and a footbridge only apparently.

Once a bridge?

What is this curious structure on the Birmingham Main Line just down from Rotton Park Junction, i am assuming there was once a bridge here and this is all that is left?

Boats on the canal (15)

On the Wyrley & Essington, if you look closely you can see it has it's own guard dog too!

Lock gates

Lock 11 on the Tame Valley Canal.

Junctions (4) : Ogley Junction

Here the Wyrley & Essington branches off to the Anglesey Basin though the main canal itself terminates here now.

Rushall reflections

The bridge over Rushall junction.

Wyrley & Essington Canal 21/11/09

Went up to Brownhills this morning to take some photos along the Wyrley & Essington (a new canal for me), i went from the Anchor Bridge up to Ogley Junction where the canal ends (apart from a branch to a basin) though one day the canal will continue on to Lichfield again.

Reflections

Train and canal, the Main Line in Ladywood.

Boats on the canal (14)

On the Main Line just before St. Vincent Street Bridge.

Junctions (3) : Rotton Park Junction

On the Birmingham Main Line, at the start of the Soho loop.

Birmingham Main Line 17/11/09

For a change i hit the centre of the BCN and took some photos down the Birmingham Main Line as far as the wonderfully named Rotton Park Junction.

Tunnels (1) : Curdworth tunnel

From the other side compared to this one.

Bridge over the motorway

One feature of the Tame Valley Canal i really like is this aqueduct over an M5 sliproad.

I'm fed up of the cold and damp!

Just a few months ago it was like this...

Boats on the canal (13)

Spotted heading towards Salford Junction on the Tame Valley. Click on the pic to see a larger version and you will see this boat has a very nice chimney.

Under Cuckoo Road Bridge

Boats on the canal (12)

Spotted moored canal side in Curdworth.

From Broad Balk Bridge to Curdworth Tunnel

Finally some new photos! Walked along the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal this morning from near Broad Balk Bridge up to the Curdworth Tunnel. I would have gone further but the towpath was quickly turning into a quagmire.

In Brum

A photo i took sometime in the late 90s using my SLR (which i must still have somewhere), the canal scene in central Birmingham!

Industry and leisure

At one side of the Grand Union you see rusting relics of an industrial past and the other side benches depicting the leisure future. Or something like that.

Boats on the canal (11)

Spotted on the Tame Valley by lock 10 last week and still there yesterday.

Lock 12

A photo taken with my Kodak Instamatic, i only took 1 photo on the canal with the latest film so why not post the scan here. Lock 12 of the Tame Valley in 110 format glory!