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I got the train to Tipton Station, and the first thing I did was walk down a section of the Birmingham Canal Navigations New Main Line from the Tipton Station Bridge towards the Watery Lane Bridge.

On a nice sunny but cold day in Tipton!


Caggy's Yard is on the left.


Watery Lane Junction

Towards Caggy's Yard Bridge.


Grade II Listed footbridge.

Towpath Bridge over Entrance to Canal Basin (Approximately 150 Metres West of Watery Lane) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level


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SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL SO 99 SE Birmingham Level, Tipton 4/7 Towpath bridge over entrance to canal basin (approx l50m west of Watery Lane)

II

Towpath bridge. Mid-C19. Cast iron with brick abutments which have some sandstone dressings. Single shallow segmental arch. Sides are a single casting pierced to form lattice pattern of saltire crosses. Spans the entrance to a boat yard which was formerly Tipton railway interchange basin, one of 26 such transhipment depots constructed on the Birmingham Canal from the 1850's onwards. (Paget-Tomlinson, E W: The Complete Book of Canal and River Navigations, 1978, p 96).


Listing NGR: SO9577992348

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Source Caggy's Yard - Birmingham Canal Navigations New Main Line - Tipton - Watery Lane Junction
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location52° 31′ 44.7″ N, 2° 03′ 49.67″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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