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The archive / Walsall Canal
Walsall Canal
37.4 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 34.1–40.7) — 493 days across 9 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 53% of this cruising season — 122 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.
Nothing is shut on this canal today.
- 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.
Every closure on record
Showing all 9 closures on the Walsall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tame Valley No 1 Bridge to Birchills Junction, including Walsall Lock Flight | Tame Valley No 1 Bridge, Ocker Hill to Birchills Junction Bridge | 2024-08-01 | 35 |
| Walsall Lock Flight | Lock 8, Walsall Bottom Lock to Lock 1, Walsall Top Lock | 2026-05-27 | 105 |
| Ryders Green Lock Flight | Lock 1, Ryders Green Top Lock to Lock 8, Ryders Green Bottom Lock | 2026-07-19 | 62 |
| Walsall Lock Flight | Lock 1, Walsall Top Lock to Lock 3, Walsall | 2026-02-20 | 6 |
| Lock 5, Walsall | Lock 5, Walsall | 2026-03-25 | 5 |
| Emergency Services Incident - Ryders Green Lock Flight | Lock 1, Ryders Green Top Lock to Railway Bridge, Hempole Lane | 2025-10-06 | 3 |
| Ryders Green Locks on the Walsall Canal | Lock 1, Ryders Green Top Lock to Lock 8, Ryders Green Bottom Lock | 2025-07-27 | 2 |
| Walsall Lock Flight | Lock 8, Walsall Bottom Lock to Lock 1, Walsall Top Lock | 2025-07-22 | 1 |
| Lock 8, Ryders Green | Lock 8, Ryders Green Bottom Lock | 2025-10-28 | 1 |
Showing the 9 longest of 9. Every row links to the notice CRT published.