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Tame Valley Canal
37.6 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 34.4–40.8) — 531 days across 5 closures of this 14km 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 64% of this cruising season — 149 of its 231 days — across 3 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
- 5 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 5 closures on the Tame Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spouthouse Embankment, Perry Barr, Birmingham | Gorse Farm Bridge, Gorse Farm to Perry Barr Lock 1, Top Lock | 2025-11-03 | 218 |
| Spouthouse Embankment, Perry Barr, Birmingham | Culvert 3, Hampstead to Perry Barr Lock 1, Top Lock | 2025-11-03 | 130 |
| Perry Barr Lock Flight | Perry Barr Lock 1, Top Lock to Perry Barr Lock 13, Bottom Lock | 2025-06-09 | 123 |
| Perry Barr Lock Flight | Perry Barr Lock 1, Top Lock to Perry Barr Lock 13, Bottom Lock | 2026-07-27 | 57 |
| Lock 10 Perry Barr. | Perry Barr Lock 1, Top Lock to Perry Barr Lock 13, Bottom Lock | 2026-06-29 | 3 |
Showing the 5 longest of 5. Every row links to the notice CRT published.