Gower Branch Canal

Gower Branch Canal
in relation to BCN Main Lines
Legend
Tipton (top) to Smethwick(bottom)

Birmingham Canal Navigations

Old Main Line
New Main Line
Netherton Tunnel
Branch Canal
Gower Branch
Bradeshall Junction
Albion Junction
Old Main Line
New Main Line

Birmingham Canal Navigations

Gower Branch Canal viewed from Albion Junction
Signpost at Albion Junction for Brades Hall Junction.
Top staircase lock and Brades Hall Junction (behind the iron bridge)
Brades (staircase) locks, photographed from the bridge

The Gower Branch Canal is a half-mile canal at Tividale in England, linking Albion Junction on the Birmingham Level (453 feet above sea) of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and Brades Hall Junction (sometimes written Bradeshall Junction[1]) on the BCN's older Wolverhampton (473 ft) level, via three locks, the Brades Locks, at the Southern, Brades Hall end.

It has a towpath on its eastern side and is crossed by only one road, the A457, just north of the middle lock. The branch is suitable for narrowboats of up to 70 foot length and 7 foot beam.

It facilitated travel between the Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal and the BCN Old Main Line, without the need for a long detour to Tipton or Smethwick and back.

  1. ^ This alternative is found only in the guides edited by David Perrott and published by Nicholson.