LMS Route: The Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Selly Oak Station: mrso896

View of the Worcester - Birmingham Canal being drained adjacent to Bristol Road bridge during May 1955. Sheet piling has been driven in to the canal on either side of the bridge creating two dams with the water in between being drained by pump. In the foreground is a British Waterways narrow boat being used to transport timbers and sheet piles. The canals were once owned by the railways and were nationalised in parallel with the railways in 1948. British Waterways became responsible for some 2,200 miles of canals and navigable rivers.

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