BCN Main Line
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The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line is the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in England.
Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Edgbaston
Birmingham Canal Company offices fronting Paradise Street. They backed onto the Old Wharf terminus.
Bridge over Old Main Line in downtown Birmingham
Two Horsley Ironworks bridges and derelict toll island at Winson Green Junction.
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is a navigable narrow canal in Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the Midlands of England. It is 46 miles long, linking the River Severn at Stourport in Wor
BCN Main Line
…Lunar Society, held a public meeting in the White Swan, High Street, Birmingham to consider the possibility of building a canal from Birmingham to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Wolverhampton, taking in the coalfields of the Black Country. They commissioned the canal engineer James Brindley to propose a route. Brindley…
Kidderminster Lock on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
Bridge 105: a changeline bridge near Milford.
Hatherton Junction, the meeting of the Hatherton Canal (behind camera) and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (left and right) at Calf Heath, Staffordshire.
Pendeford Rockin' or 'The Narrows', here the canal is a narrow cutting through an outcrop of Keuper Sandstone either side of the Forster Bridge at Pendeford.