Inside the tunnel

Inside Curzon St Tunnel.

Basins (4) : Typhoo

Typhoo Basin of the Digbeth Branch Canal.

Tunnels (9) : Curzon Street

With many of the railway lines heading into Birmingham New Street on top.

Lock 4

On the Digbeth Canal near ..er.. Digbeth.

Pipe bridge

On the Digbeth Branch Canal.

Signposts (1) : Aston Junction

Interesting this points to Farmers Bridge Junction and not Old Turn Junction.

Signs (5) : No naked lights

In Digbeth.

Junctions (22) : Proof House / Digbeth Junction

Some call this Digbeth Junction, others Proof House. I'm prefer to use the latter but whatever you call it its where the Digbeth Branch Canal joins the Grand Union Canal. Keep going here and eventually you can reach East London. I'll have to walk that one day...

Back to Digbeth

It seems ages since i've walked a canal in the Birmingham Canal Navigations area (a proper full-on canal walk that is and not a few snaps from one location). Indeed the last time was back in April when i visited Brindley Place.

Today i walked the entirety of the Digbeth Branch Canal. Its not a long canal, it links the Birmingham & Fazeley at Aston to the Grand Union at Warwick Bar but in that short length it includes quite a few locks and two tunnels. It also includes plenty of places that smell of wee. Here you can see the photos which thankfully do not smell of anything! 

Incidentally it was 2009 the last time i've visited the canal, some of the buildings alongside have changed in that time.

Parkside

The Digbeth Branch Canal as seen from the new Parkside BCU campus building.

Banana Warehouse

Boundary between the Digbeth and Grand Union canals.

Head on

The entrance to Ashted Tunnel

Once for loading

One of a number of bays just off the Digbeth canal, once for loading bays perhaps?

Tunnels (2) : Ashted Tunnel

Irony

Boats on the canal (17)

On the Digbeth Branch Canal, spotted at Digbeth Junction looking towards Typhoo Basin.

Junctions (5) : Aston Junction

Where the Birmingham & Fazeley meets the Digbeth Branch Canal.

Old and new

Canal in the foreground, Selfridges in the background. Guess which one i prefer!

Canals of Digbeth and beyond

New photoshoots were taken this morning, firstly the Digbeth Branch Canal from Aston Junction to Digbeth Junction. Then the Grand Union from where it meets the Digbeth Canal at the Banana Warehouse.