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The archive / New Mainline
New Mainline
1.9 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 1.1–2.6) — 25 days across 3 closures of this 13km 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 0% of this cruising season — 1 of its 231 days — across 1 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
- 3 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 3 closures on the New Mainline.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock 3 Factory, Tipton | Lock 3, Factory Locks, Tipton | 2025-11-03 | 18 |
| Summit Tunnel, Galton, Smethwick | Summit Tunnel, Galton | 2026-01-13 | 7 |
| Between Brasshouse Lane Bridge and Roving Bridge, Bromford Junction, Smethwick | Brasshouse Lane Bridge to Roving Bridge, Bromford Junction | 2026-08-12 | same day |
Showing the 3 longest of 3. Every row links to the notice CRT published.