Canal closures

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The archive / Rushall Canal

Rushall Canal

Something was shut here on 50% of this cruising season — 115 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.

1 closure is still shut now, and 1 of those has no reopening date. Filter to it.

Regions
West Midlands
On record
9 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.

2026-03-15one bar is one closure2026-10-31

Every closure on record

Population

Status

Period

2025 season2026 seasonAll time

Duration

Cause

Asset affected

CRT reason

Region

Showing all 9 closures on the Rushall Canal.

9
closures
181
closure-days
178
in cruising season
1
no reopening date
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.
The season so farweeks with a closure in force
Closures in force each monthclosures active during the month
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
2
4
1
1
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
West Midlands1819
9 results · every closure on the Rushall CanalJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Rushall Lock Flight
Low Water Levels · Weather · no reopening date
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall to Lock 9, Rushall2026-07-1569
Rushall Lock Flight
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall to Lock 9, Rushall2025-07-1067
Rushall Lock Flight
Repair · Other cause
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall to Rushall Junction Bridge2026-04-2823
Rushall Lock Flight
Suspected Vandalism · Vandalism
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall to Lock 9, Rushall2026-06-019
Lock 1 Top Lock - Lock 9 Rushall
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall to Lock 9, Rushall2026-06-256
Between Catshill Junction and Rushall Lock 1
Maintenance · Nothing failed
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall2026-02-113
Rushall Canal Between Lock 2 and 3
Vegetation · Weather
Lock 2, Rushall to Lock 3, Rushall2026-07-103
Rushall lock flight
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall to Lock 9, Rushall2026-07-261
Catshill Junction Bridge to Rushall Junction Bridge, Daw End
Repair · Cause not stated
Lock 1, Top Lock Rushall to Rushall Junction Bridge2025-06-16same day

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