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Embankment
Too few unplanned closures of this kind in June to August 2026 and the same months a year earlier to tell a change from luck: 0 against 1. How this is tested.
- On record
- 5 closures since May 2025
In force today
1 closure of this kind is in force today, longest shut first. Filter the explorer to them.
| Canal | Where | Since | Days shut |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llangollen Canal | Lock 6, Grindley Brook Locks to Bridge 31, New Mills Lift Bridge | 22 December 2025 | 278 |
By canal
4 canals have had a closure of this kind. A closure naming two canals counts on both.
| Canal | Closures |
|---|---|
| Tame Valley Canal | 2 |
| Huddersfield Narrow Canal | 1 |
| Leigh Branch (L&L Canal) | 1 |
| Llangollen Canal | 1 |
Every closure on record
Showing 5 closures involving a embankment.
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What these figures mean
- Population
- Which closures a figure counts. All closures is everything; Unplanned closure drops the works CRT flags as its winter programme and any day outside the cruising season (the Friday nearest 15 March to the Sunday before the first Monday in November). Scheduled work CRT does not flag as winter works still counts here. CRT Planned closure is the flagged winter programme alone.
- Defensible duration
- The days between a closure's start and its reopening date, counted only where the dates allow it. A cancelled notice, or one whose reopening precedes its start, has no defensible duration and is in no total.
- Closure-days
- One day on which one closure was in force. Two closures on the same day are two closure-days; where the question is how long a canal was actually disrupted, overlapping notices are unioned into single intervals. They are counted from 1 May 2025, when this archive begins: a closure that started earlier adds only its days since then, though its own row shows its whole length. Every figure and chart counts only the days inside the Period chosen above them.
- In force
- A closure is in a Period, and a day is one a closure affected, if it was in force at any time that day, including the morning it reopened. Closure-days measure how long, so they count whole days and not the reopening day: a closure can be in a Period and add no closure-day to it.
Closures in force each month
closures active during the monthCanals ranked by the season's closures
share of the period's cruising-season days up to today — a closure somewhere on a long canal is likelier, and does not mean the canal was impassableclosures in force on the period's cruising-season days — a longer canal has more to go wrong onWhere
closure-days by regionclosures by regionA region with more canal has more to go wrong on, so these totals partly measure its size. Regions compared by length of canal are on the Reliability page.
What causes them
closure-days by causeclosures by causeCRT's reason
closure-days by the reason CRT filedclosures by the reason CRT filedWhat fails on a lock
closure-days by part — unplanned lock failures naming a partclosures by part — unplanned lock failures naming a partHow long they last
closures by full length, including any days before May 2025 — the bands are not equal in widthClosures
Between Lock 6 Grindley Brook Lock and Bridge 31A Whitchurch Bypass Bridge
Llangollen CanalWest Midlands
278 days
From 22 December 2025
No reopening date
Still shut
- Where
- Lock 6, Grindley Brook Locks to Bridge 31, New Mills Lift Bridge
- CRT reason
- Repair
- Cause
- Worn out
- Asset
- Embankment
Work has temporarily stopped on the reconstruction of the canal embankment due to unforeseen wet areas of material at the south (New Mills Lift Bridge) end of the works. The wet areas are preventing the imported granular material from being adequately compacted. The existing…
Latest of 18 CRT updates, 14 September 2026. 12 days without another.
Navigation Closure: Lock 11 West, Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Huddersfield Narrow CanalNorth West
212 days
From 1 January 2025
Reopened 1 August 2025
92 of them since this archive began on 1 May 2025
- Where
- Lock 12 West to Lock 10 West
- CRT reason
- Repair
- Cause
- Weather
- Asset
- Embankment
We are pleased we have completed works to Lock 11W, from the extreme damaged that occurred in January. We will continue to demobilise the area and we will carry landscaping with reinstalling of trees. Please note this lock and all locks on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal will…
Latest of 6 CRT updates, 30 July 2025.
Spouthouse Embankment, Perry Barr, Birmingham
Tame Valley CanalWest Midlands
130 days
From 3 November 2025
Reopened 13 March 2026
- Where
- Culvert 3, Hampstead to Perry Barr Lock 1, Top Lock
- CRT reason
- Repair
- Cause
- Planned works
- Asset
- Embankment
A navigation and towpath closure are required for significant canal bed replacement works to two areas of the canal over the length of Spouthouse Embankment. The canal will be drained between Gorse Farm Bridge and Tower Hill and works will also include canal wall rebuild and…
CRT's only update, 8 May 2025.
Poolstock Lock 1 to Bridge No.3, Bamfurlong Bridge
Leigh Branch (L&L Canal)North West
78 days
From 12 August 2025
Reopened 29 October 2025
- Where
- Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch to Bridge No.3, Bamfurlong bridge
- CRT reason
- 3rd Party Works
- Cause
- Other cause
- Asset
- Embankment
We are pleased to advise that the final checks have been completed to the washwall at Lock 1, Poolstock Lock and Bridge 3, Bamfurlong bridge on the Leigh branch on the Leeds & Liverpool canal and navigation is now back open.
Latest of 8 CRT updates, 29 October 2025.
Spouthouse Embankment, Perry Barr, Birmingham
Tame Valley CanalWest Midlands
78 days
From 23 March 2026
Reopened 9 June 2026
- Where
- Gorse Farm Bridge, Gorse Farm to Perry Barr Lock 1, Top Lock
- CRT reason
- Repair
- Cause
- Broke, cause not given
- Asset
- Embankment
The navigation and towpath remain closed while we work with a third party to resolve the issue. We apologise for any inconvenience and will provide an update by 5 June.
Latest of 6 CRT updates, 12 May 2026.
Showing the 5 longest of 5. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
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