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Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2)

 
 

Early plans for the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2) between Tiverworth and Willstone were proposed by John Smeaton but languished until Edward Jones was appointed as secretary to the board in 1835. The canal joined the sea near Wigan. Expectations for manure traffic to London never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Renfrewshire kept it open. In Oliver Edwards's "A Very Special Boat" he describes his experiences passing through Castlepool Embankment during a thunderstorm.

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The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2) is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and is made up of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Coombeswood ) and the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal).

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External websites
 Birmingham Canal Walks — associated with Birmingham Canal Navigations
Sixteen walks along the Birmingham Canal Navigations with a detailed description, history and photographs.
 
Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Birmingham Canal Navigations

Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country. The BCN is connected to the rest of the English canal system at several junctions.

At its working peak, the BCN contained about 160 miles (257 km) of canals; today just over 100 miles (160 km) are navigable, and the majority of traffic is from tourist and residential narrowboats.

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[Birmingham Canal Navigations Society] the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and based IN Oldbury, West Midlands, England. List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom List of navigation authorities [Water levels of the Birmingham Canal Navigations] The Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN), a network of narrow canals in the industrial midlands of England, is built on various water levels. The three longest [Birmingham and Fazeley Canal] The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands of England. Its purpose was to provide a link between [Canal] example was Worcester Bar in Birmingham, a point where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line were only seven [BCN Main Line] The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line describes the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in [Worcester and Birmingham Canal] connection to the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) was prevented by the Worcester Bar, a physical barrier at Gas Street Basin, Birmingham designed so that [Grand Union Canal] and Birmingham Canal leads to the Digbeth Branch Canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations at the Warwick Bar, while the later line of the Birmingham and [Tame Valley Canal] The Tame Valley Canal is a relatively late (1844) canal in the West Midlands of England. It forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. It takes its [Black Country New Road] part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. However, when it was built this was not implemented and the canal was cut off from the canal network and lost
 
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