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Gosty Hill Tunnel and Bradley Workshops
We left Windmill End Junction in slightly better weather this morning, heading for Hawne Basin. The long range views across the West Midlands were rather unexpected. We also passed through Gosty Hill Tunnel. It’s a single bore tunnel with no towpath. It starts quite high and roomy, then once inside there are sections where the roof is so low you have to duck so you don’t bang your head on the roof. There’s just one air shaft and it comes out in somebody’s garden on the surface. 
We retraced our route to Windmill End Junction, then through the nice wide Netherton Tunnel. I tried it on electric power and it was wonderfully quiet. You could hear the voices of all the ghosts and ghouls that live in the tunnel as they chatted to themselves. The along the new main line and up Tipton Locks. We were following a British Waterways Boat up the locks and the paused in the middle lock to load some fencing that had been used to protect some works. 
The to Wolverhampton via the Wednesbury Oak Loop – which is now a dead end branch. It’s the first time we’ve been down there and we knew from Nicholson’s guide that we had to be there by 17:00 to be able to wind in the BW workshops at the end. At the last regular winding hole there was a sign saying we had to be there by 16:00 (an hour earlier than Nicholson’s) but that was no problem as it was 15:15 and we only had a mile to go. That was before we found all the weed and, despite pushing on as hard as we could it was 16:01 when we reached the end. Fortunately there was still room to wind a boat of our length. The BW man who came out to check the unusual sounds was surprised to find it was a boat – they are a very rare sight here. Posted on Monday, 3 September 2007 at 19:19 Comments (0) |
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