Factory over Canal (east end) is on the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line).
The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line) was built by Exuperius Picking Junior and opened on January 1 1816. The canal joined the sea near Bournemouth. Expectations for stone traffic to Barton were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line) were submitted to parliament in 1972, water transfer to the treatment works at Wakefield kept it open. The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line) was closed in 1955 when St Helens Aqueduct collapsed. In his autobiography Arthur Clarke writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s

| Wood Lane Pipe Bridge | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Bromford Bridge No 2 | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Bromford Bridge No 1 | 2¾ furlongs | |
| Bromford Wharf | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Erdington Hall Bridge | a few yards | |
| Factory over Canal (east end) | ||
| Factory over Canal (western end) | ¾ furlongs | |
| Troutpool Bridge | 1 furlong | |
| New Troutpool Bridge | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Site of Troutpool Basin | 2½ furlongs | |
| Troutpool Pipe Bridge | 3½ furlongs | |
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- Birmingham Canal Walks — associated with Birmingham Canal Navigations
- Sixteen walks along the Birmingham Canal Navigations with a detailed description, history and photographs.
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![Erdington Hall Bridge. The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal passes underneath a huge factory here, forming what is very nearly a tunnel. [[[1740107]]] by Nick Atty – 27 May 2001](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/00/26/002650_e73f2e5e_120x120.jpg)



![The Birmingham & Fazeley canal goes undercover. Just west of Erdington Hall Bridge a large depot [now seemingly empty] has been built over the canal and its towpath. The orange light reflected in the water is the tunnel light on the photographer's boat. by Christine Johnstone – 09 May 2022](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/21/41/7214114_7d7527e0_120x120.jpg)











![Birmingham & Fazeley Canal: New Troutpool Bridge. The bridge carries Jarvis Way over the canal. The current edition of Nicholson's Waterways Guide is a little confusing here as it calls this bridge Troutpool Bridge and [[3134633]] New Troutpool Bridge. But old large scale Ordnance Survey maps show a Troutpool Bridge in the location of the latter from at least the 1916 edition onwards, whereas the bridge in this photograph is not shown in the 1937 edition. Logic suggests therefore that this is the New Troutpool Bridge.This photograph was taken from the western end of an approximate 200 metre reach of the canal that is covered by an industrial building. The canal is enclosed on the northern side by the building wall but open through the concrete building support columns on the southern side. The 1937 edition of the Ordnance Survey mapping does not show this cover, but does show an electric furnace works on the north side of the canal. It would appear that this works has subsequently been extended out over the canal, and is shown as such in the 1952-1964 edition. by Nigel Cox – 08 September 2012](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/13/47/3134709_2ac30381_120x120.jpg)







![Troutpool Bridge near Gravelly Hill, Birmingham. Here the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal passes under this concrete bridge (which carries Jarvis Way into Gravelly Industrial Park), then continues under a factory for more than two hundred metres, emerging by Erdington Hall Bridge. [[[2650]]] by Roger D Kidd – 09 September 2008](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/74/01/1740107_8e8452d1_120x120.jpg)


