Approaching Edgbaston Tunnel, Birmingham
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Approaching Edgbaston Tunnel, Birmingham
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 8 Sep 2008
This end of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was built in the early/mid 1790s, but it took twenty-three years to finish the job into Worcester and onto the River Severn. Edgbaston Tunnel is the only one of five on the thirty mile route to be built with a towpath. The railway here, which runs alongside the canal for several miles, was built in 1876, the line going to Redditch, and Bromsgrove, Worcester and now on to Bristol and Cardiff.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.465193
Longitude
-1.922357