Dudley Canal & Tunnel Trust Footbridge

Address is taken from a point 260 yards away.

Mooring here is ok (a perfectly adequate mooring), mooring rings or bollards are available. Mooring is limited to 24 hours. Room for one boat in front of swing bridge.
Facilities: water point.
There is a swing bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
Dudley Tunnel (northern entrance) | ¾ furlongs | |
Dudley Canal & Tunnel Trust Footbridge | ||
Black Country Museum | ¼ furlongs | |
Todds End Customer Service Facility | ½ furlongs | |
Birmingham New Road Bridge | 1 furlong | |
Birmingham New Road Pipe Bridge | 1 furlong | |
Dudley Road Bridge (Tipton) | 1¾ furlongs |
- 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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Nearest water point
In the direction of Dudley Tunnel (northern entrance)
In the direction of Tipton Junction
Nearest rubbish disposal
In the direction of Dudley Tunnel (northern entrance)
In the direction of Tipton Junction
Nearest chemical toilet disposal
In the direction of Dudley Tunnel (northern entrance)
In the direction of Tipton Junction
Nearest place to turn
In the direction of Dudley Tunnel (northern entrance)
In the direction of Tipton Junction
Nearest self-operated pump-out
In the direction of Dudley Tunnel (northern entrance)
In the direction of Tipton Junction
Nearest boatyard pump-out
In the direction of Dudley Tunnel (northern entrance)
In the direction of Tipton Junction
Wikipedia has a page about Dudley Canal & Tunnel Trust Footbridge
The Dudley Canal is a canal passing through Dudley in the West Midlands of England. The canal is part of the English and Welsh connected network of navigable inland waterways, and in particular forms part of the popular Stourport Ring narrowboat cruising route.
The first short section, which connected to the Stourbridge Canal, opened in 1779, and this was connected through the Dudley Tunnel to the Birmingham Canal system in 1792. Almost immediately, work started on an extension, called Line No. 2, which ran through another long tunnel at Lapal, to reach the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. This was completed in 1798, but significant trade had to wait until the Worcester and Birmingham was completed in 1802. In 1846, the company amalgamated with the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and various improvements followed, including the Netherton Tunnel, of a similar length to the Dudley Tunnel, but much bigger, with towpaths on both sides and gas lighting. It was the last canal tunnel built in England.
Subsidence from coal mining was a significant problem for much of the life of the canal. The Lapal Tunnel was regularly affected, and a section near Blackbrook Junction fell into mine workings in 1894. The route was restored, but the short Two Locks Line nearby was abandoned in 1909, and the Lapal Tunnel, which has used a pump and stop-locks to create flows to assist the boats in their passage, suffered the same fate in 1917. Most of the canal was abandoned in the 1960s, but a committee was formed, which became the Dudley Canal Trust, and restoration took place, culminating in the reopening of Dudley Tunnel in 1973. Lapal Tunnel remains closed, and although the Lapal Tunnel Trust originally campaigned for it to be reopened, they have modified their plans to include a surface route, following the conclusion of an engineering study.