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Old Turn Junction, or Deep Cutting Junction, is a canal junction in Birmingham where the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal meets the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) Main Line Canal. When the first Birmingham Canal Main Line was built in the late 1760s there was a dispute about where the canal should terminate. In the end two termini were created: one in 1772 at Newhall Hill called the Newhall Branch, and the other in 1773 at the western end of Paradise Street, called the Paradise Street Branch and the junction of these two branches became known as Deep Cutting Junction, and more recently Old Turn Junction. Deep Cutting was the name of the short stretch of canal between the junction and Broad Street Tunnel. The Telford New Main Line modifications following his 1824 survey cut through many of the bends of the Old Main Line, so that Old Turn Junction became the meeting of four branches. The island was installed during World War II, to allow the use of temporary dams to protect the railway tunnel beneath it, should the canal be breached by bombing. The north tunnel of the Stour Valley railway line runs a few yards north east of the junction, under the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. The signpost was added in 1983.
Heading down via the Glen Boulder Trail.
Shot with Olympus C8080WZ @ 10 mm
1/500 sec at f/4.5 | ISO50 | no flash