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Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
12.2 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 10.8–13.6) — 294 days across 16 closures of this 24km canal.
Lengths from CRT's ArcGIS open data, published under the strictest reading of its licence. A notice is attributed to the whole named waterway, not to a point.
Something was shut here on 4% of this cruising season — 9 of its 231 days — across 6 separate closures.
That means a closure somewhere on the canal, not that the whole canal was impassable. Every closure below names the locks or bridges it sat between.
Nothing is shut on this canal today.
- Regions
- West Midlands
- On record
- 18 closures
The season, closure by closure
Each row is one closure. A bar starts and ends where the closure did, and its length is how long it ran; dashed bars have not started yet.
Every closure on record
Showing all 16 closures on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal.
What these figures mean
- Population
- Which closures a figure counts. All closures is everything; Unplanned, in season drops CRT's scheduled winter programme and any day outside the 15 March to 31 October cruising season; CRT winter programme is that maintenance 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.
| Notice | Extent | Started | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minworth Lock Flight | Lock 1, Minworth to Lock 3, Minworth | 2025-06-16 | 95 |
| Aston Lock Flight | Lock 1, Aston Top Lock to Aston Lock 11 | 2025-08-08 | 94 |
| Cable Bridge East of Salford Junction | Cable Bridge East of Salford Junction | 2025-08-08 | 56 |
| Lock 9 Aston | Lock 1, Aston Top Lock to Aston Lock 11 | 2026-02-23 | 18 |
| Lock 8, Curdworth | Lock 1, Curdworth Top Lock to Lock 11, Curdworth | 2026-01-05 | 18 |
| Aston Lock 10 | Aston Lock 10 | 2025-07-02 | 6 |
| Inshaw Basin to Chelston Road Wharf Bridge, Aston | Inshaw Basin to Chelston Road Wharf Bridge | 2025-09-12 | 3 |
| Lock 11, Curdworth | Lock 11, Curdworth | 2026-07-26 | 2 |
| Between Kingsbury Swing Bridge and Lock 10, Curdworth | Lock 10, Curdworth to Kingsbury Swing Bridge | 2026-01-12 | 1 |
| Drayton Manor Swing Bridge | Drayton Swing Bridge | 2026-03-25 | 1 |
| Farmers Bridge Lock Flight, Birmingham | Farmers Bridge Lock 1, Top Lock to Farmers Bridge Lock 13, Bottom Lock | 2025-06-03 | same day |
| Farmers Bridge lock flight | Farmers Bridge Lock 1, Top Lock to Farmers Bridge Lock 13, Bottom Lock | 2025-09-30 | same day |
| Farmers Bridge Lock Flight | Farmers Bridge Lock 1, Top Lock to Farmers Bridge Lock 13, Bottom Lock | 2026-06-23 | same day |
| Lock 7, Curdworth | Lock 7, Curdworth | 2026-07-15 | same day |
| Between Minworth Top Lock and Tyburn Bridge | Tyburn Bridge, Chester Road to Lock 1, Minworth | 2026-08-04 | same day |
| Farmers Bridge Lock Flight, Birmingham | Farmers Bridge Lock 1, Top Lock to Farmers Bridge Lock 13, Bottom Lock | 2026-09-21 | same day |
Showing the 16 longest of 16. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 4, Curdworth | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Lock 9, Curdworth | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
Not counted
Cancelled notices and ones whose dates cannot be right are in no figure on this page. They are kept here because CRT published them.
| Notice | State | Started |
|---|---|---|
| Farmers Bridge Lock 13 | Cancelled | 12 November 2025 |
| Lock 4, Curdworth | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 9, Curdworth | Published | 2 November 2026 |