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Wednesbury Oak Loop

Wednesbury Oak Loop
Wednesbury Oak Canal rural.jpg
A rural scene on the Wednesbury Oak Loop
Specifications
Status Part open, Part destroyed
Navigation authority Canal and River Trust
History
Principal engineer James Brindley
Date of act 1768
Date of first use 1772
Date completed 1837
Date closed 1954
Geography
Start point Bloomfield Junction
End point Deepfields Junction
Branch of Birmingham Canal Navigations
Wednesbury Oak Loop
BCN Main Line
(to Wolverhampton)
"Brindley" Old Main Line
Deepfields Jn
Pumping station
British Waterways depot
"Telford" New Main Line
Bradley Locks Branch
(to Walsall Canal)
Coseley Tunnel (360 yards)
Ocker Hill Branch
Bloomfield Jn
Wikipedia

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