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The archive / Worcester & Birmingham Canal
Worcester & Birmingham Canal
5.0 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 4.4–5.6) — 241 days across 14 closures of this 48km 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 2% of this cruising season — 5 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
- 16 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 14 closures on the Worcester & Birmingham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock 58, Tardebigge Top Lock | Lock 58 | 2025-02-17 | 118 |
| Lock 7, Worcester | Lock 7, Bilford | 2025-11-03 | 46 |
| Between Bridge 84, Somerset Road and Bridge 83, Pritchetts Road, Birmingham | Bridge 83, Pritchetts Road to Bridge 84, Somerset Road | 2026-01-12 | 2 |
| Lock 6 gregorys Mill - Worcester & Birmingham Canal | Lock 6, Gregorys Mill | 2025-05-03 | 1 |
| Tardebigge Flight - Bridge 55 London Lane | Bridge 55 | 2025-10-04 | 1 |
| Lock 6, Gregorys Mill, Worcester | Lock 6, Gregorys Mill | 2025-06-03 | same day |
| Lock 57 Tardebigge Flight Bromsgrove | Lock 57 | 2025-10-08 | same day |
| Lock 28, Stoke Prior | Lock 23 | 2026-02-26 | same day |
| Lock 20 | Lock 20 | 2026-03-16 | same day |
| Black Prince Wharf Lock 23 | Lock 23 | 2026-04-01 | same day |
| Breedon Cross Bridge 75, Lifford | Breedon Cross Bridge 75 | 2026-04-01 | same day |
| Lock 3, Sidbury, Worcester | Lock 3, Sidbury (Commandery) | 2026-07-01 | same day |
| Before Bridge 64, Alvechurch | Bridge 64 | 2026-08-21 | same day |
| Lock 17 Worcester Birmingham Canal | Lock 17, Hanbury Park | 2026-09-09 | same day |
Showing the 14 longest of 14. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 42 Tardebigge Lock Flight | 23 September 2026 | 0 days |
| Lock 43, Worcestershire | 4 January 2027 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 43, Worcestershire | Published | 4 January 2027 |
| Lock 42 Tardebigge Lock Flight | Published | 23 September 2026 |