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	Blisworth Tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blisworth Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England between the villages of Stoke Bruerne (southern end) and Blisworth (northern end).
		At 3076 yards (2813m) long it is the third-longest navigable canal tunnel on the UK canal network after Standedge Tunnel and Dudley Tunnel (and the ninth-longest canal tunnel in the world).
		In March 1805, the tunnel was finally opened and the rails were used to connect the main line of the canal to the River Nene until the branch canal to Northampton was constructed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blisworth_tunnel (341 words)

	Dudley Canal Roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The second Act was for the Dudley Canal which was to run from Stourbridge to the numerous coal fields of Dudley and Netherton.
		At this point the tunnel trips didn't go very far though the aim was to open up some of the old mine and quarry tunnels which would eventually create a unique trip to underground caverns and wharves.
		Dudley Tunnel is officially open and thousands of sight seers enter the tunnel every year on trip boats from the Black Country Museum.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/dudleycanal.htm (2841 words)

	Sports: Dudley: Teams ask, but Svoboda stays
		But Dudley said he is getting calls this season despite Svoboda's severe concussion, which has kept him off the ice for six weeks.
		Dudley said he is honest with fellow general managers about Svoboda's condition.
		Dudley said even if Svoboda, who will be 35 Feb. 14, were healthy, it would take a huge offer to pry him loose.
	www.sptimes.com /News/013001/news_pf/Sports/Dudley__Teams_ask__bu.shtml (411 words)

	Dudley line photographs
		Dudley Castle is just visible on top of the distant hill in both shots.
		This one carries the Dudley Southern Bypass and was built in 1999 (the left-hand span crosses the trackbed, the right-hand span an access road to an industrial estate).
		The later shot is taken from a position slightly to the left of the original, and with a wider lens.
	www.bescot.plus.com /dudley.htm (2181 words)

	Index
		This is the south portal of the tunnel on the North Wiltshire Canal at Cricklade.
		Further on, the tunnel was crossed by a railway, the Midland and South Western Junction line, in a shallow cutting.
		The only tunnel to be situated on a river navigation, after closure it was blocked by the railway company whose tracks crossed it, the north end is now rather more full with water than its builders intended.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /leopold/mark/scrapbook.html (1646 words)

	expressandstar.com:features:out & about (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The western end of the Dudley Canal Tunnel is in an area known as Parkhead, and the locks on the Dudley Canal at this point are known as the Parkhead Locks.
		To reach Dudley itself was impossible as it sat on top of a hill, but the canal promoters hoped to burrow beneath the area and gain access to the Birmingham Canal Navigations at Tipton.
		As soon as the tunnel was completed, the canal company further developed the basin as a junction and began building their second line to Selly Oak.
	www.expressandstar.com /artman/publish/article_19731.php (730 words)

	Dudley Canal Route (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The tunnel is 3,154 yards long though there is actually over 5,000 yards of underground waterways inside.These run into underground basins and natural caverns (some thousands of years old).
		The tunnel was 3,800 yards long, one of the longest in Britain and the longest on the BCN.
		Birmingham Council have not yet agreed to allow the full restoration of the Dudley No.2 Canal though they have included the former route in their forward planning which suggests they are keen to make sure any extant bridges and canal bed are not flattened or built on.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/dudleycanalroute.htm (3038 words)

	Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - The Canals of Dudley
		The Stourbridge and Dudley Canals were cut in the late 18th century to link with the Staffs and Worcester Canal to the west and the Birmingham Canal Navigations system ('BCN' to the enthusiasts) to the east and thus become a part of the national network of waterways.
		It was the repeated collapse of sections of this tunnel that resulted in the remainder of the canal being closed in 1917.
		Dudley Council is restoring the grounds but in the meantime there are still many pleasant strolls alongside the streams running through the woods.
	www.dudley.gov.uk /leisure-and-culture/local-history--heritage/the-canals-of-dudley (2213 words)

	The International Canal Monuments List - Part IIb - Individual Structures
		This was the first intermediate tunnel on a British canal (1766-77) and the first large-length tunnel on any waterway in the world, and Brindley's opponents saw it as evidence of his insanity.
		This is the largest and earliest internationally known example of the extensive use of canal tunnels in a mine and it is important for being part of the most influential canal built as part of the Industrial Revolution (see "Technologically significant canals").
		The tunnel at St Quentin is 5670m long and was opened in 1810 by Napoleon I. Until 1864, boats were moved through the tunnel by gangs of seven or eight men.
	www.icomos.org /studies/canals2b.htm (7623 words)

	Dudley No 1 Canal: Waterscape.com
		The Dudley No. 1 Canal (there's also a No. 2) runs for five miles between Tipton and the Stourbridge Canal at the bottom of Delph Locks.
		Much of this is the famously claustrophobic Dudley Tunnel, where boats are legged through by manpower alone.
		Dudley Tunnel passes directly underneath the town and its castle, through a remarkable network of limestone caverns.
	www.waterscape.com /Dudley_No_1_Canal (258 words)

	Blisworth Tunnel photo - Dave Wright photos at pbase.com
		Blisworth Tunnel is one of the longest in Britain.
		One of the highlights of their cruise was to be the journey through Blisworth Tunnel, at that time the longest open canal tunnel.
		It was exactly at the spot where the first attempt at a tunnel - which collapsed due to quicksand - would have intersected with the main canal tunnel.
	www.pbase.com /image/40942357 (661 words)

	I.A.Recordings: C11 Flooding the Rock Tunnel, Dudley Tunnel
		Follows the flooding of the Rock Tunnel, at Dudley in 1988 and the first attempts to float a narrowboat into the tunnel for over 100 years.
		Once the historic remains of the sunken narrowboat were floated to safety, the Dudley Canal Trust and Dudley tunnel trips limited were able to take a steel narrowboat into the Rock tunnel; the first such journey since the limestone mines closed.
		It was a tight fit, but the experiment was a success and led to the tunnel becoming part of a through route used today by the trip boats which take visitors through the fascinating labyrinth of caverns and canals.
	www.iarecordings.org /c11.html (149 words)

	Canals
		The "new" tunnel is at right angles to the old one and is of fairly generous dimensions, having a towpath on both sides.
		The canal is known for its tunnels, at Harecastle, Barnton, Saltersford and Preston Brook.
		The canal has four tunnels, the longest at Kings Norton near the junction with the Stratford Canal is just under two miles long.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/Canals.htm (4847 words)

	Dudley Borough: Waterscape.com
		Dudley Borough – Come and Discover Within the Black Country, Dudley’s 16 miles of navigable canals provides a stunning ‘green corridor’ through a mainly urban landscape, with an amazing variety of visitor attractions either next to or a short distance from one of our three main canals.
		Dudley Tunnel on the Dudley No 1 canal provides a unique experience where boats are legged through by manpower alone.
		Dudley Zoo was founded in 1937 by the Earls of Dudley and is now home to many endangered animal species.
	www.waterscape.com /servicesdirectory/Dudley_Borough (994 words)

	Push Boys Push
		This is a relatively recent song, composed by members of the Dudley Tunnel Trust.
		Dudley Tunnel runs under the town, being one of five tunnels on the Birmingham Canal.
		Dudley and British Waterways wished to close Dudley Tunnel - there is a parallel bore, Netherton Tunnel - but the Dudley Tunnel Trust was set up by enthusiasts, who successfully resisted the closure and helped to restore the tunnel to navigational use.
	www.rod.beavon.clara.net /pushboys.htm (329 words)

	Reed Hotel Boats
		Telford bypassed this loop by building Coseley Tunnel which is said to be the prototype of the much larger Netherton Tunnel which came later.
		This included the building of Netherton Tunnel which was built to supersede the narrow and congested Dudley Tunnel.
		Around the same time a newly formed Dudley Canal society was also hard at work saving that canal (and Dudley Tunnel in particular) from being closed and abandoned.
	www.reedboats.co.uk /routes/canals/bcn.html (2595 words)

	Dudley Ward Tunnel - Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
		The closure of the Dudley Tunnel following the horrifying rock fall accident which cost one life and seriously injured the father of the dead man has contributed to the growing chaos on Gibraltar’s roads.
		The tunnel is aptly named after Sir Alfred Dudley Ward, Governor of Gibraltar from 1962 to 1965.
		The PDP understands that the Government was planning to open Dudley Ward Tunnel as an alternative access route for construction vehicles prior to construction works commencing in the South District.
	www.vox.gi /index.php?news=1328 (367 words)

	Lord Wards Arm & The Dudley No.1
		This canal along with the Dudley Tunnel Branch Canal surround what is now the Black Country Living Museum.
		In between these this canal and the Dudley Tunnel Branch lies a boat dock with several original buildings made up of old boat timbers.
		The Dudley Tunnel Branch canal with the Dudley northern portal in the background.
	upthecut.users.btopenworld.com /canals2/wards.htm (300 words)

	Birmingham Canal Navigations Society, the BCNS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yes I know that it is theoretically open, but and it is a big but, the headroom in the tunnel is very restricted and probably 75% of boats on the canal system cannot pass the gauge at the tunnel mouth.
		The removal of possibly three courses of bricks from the weir at Park Head, probably a spot of dredging of the tunnel approaches and inside the tunnel itself.
		With lock gates at Tipton it would enable any boat that ventured into the tunnel and became stuck to be flushed out by opening the paddles at Park Head, a major safety plus factor.
	www.bcn-society.co.uk /bp163_letter.php (1226 words)

	The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Leaving Windmill End, the canal passes through the opened-out Brewins Tunnel, then past Blackbrook Junction, where the now closed "Two Lock Line" once cut a large loop out of the journey (another victim to mining subsidence), to reach Park Head Junction and the Park Head lock flight.
		The rest of the flight, leading up to the Dudley Tunnel, can be seen in the background.
		The old Pump House, on the right, is now used by the Dudley Canal Trust.
	home.fastnet.co.uk /gerrycork/canals/bcn/dudley_no1_canal.htm (273 words)

	Dudley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dudley, part of the West Midlands conurbation, is located south of Wolverhampton and is the largest town in the Black Country.
		The town centre is traditionally part of an exclave of Worcestershire entirely surrounded by Staffordshire - which has determined the fact that, in ecclesiastical terms, it has remained part of the diocese of Worcester.
		Wrens Nest Estate, a residential area that was mostly developed with council housing in the late 1930s to rehouse people from town centre slum clearances, and was expanded during the 1950s to join the border with Sedgley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dudley (1112 words)

	CWDG: Projects: Dudley Town Common
		Standing as a gateway to the Dudley neighborhood, the Dudley Town Common is comprised of two parks totaling approximately 3/4 of an acre.
		The parks and the streetscape designs were required, in order to unify the community center as the social, cultural, and economic common for the Dudley Street Neighborhood.
		During the design process, Lynn Wolff and John Copley facilitated over thirty community meetings to ensure that the needs and desires of Dudley residents were incorporated in the design.
	www.copley-wolff.com /projects/urban/dudley.html (254 words)

	Dudley tourist information from TourUK
		Other attractions in the area include the Dudley Zoological Gardens and the Wren's Nest, parkland and an important geological nature reserve. Some of the fossils uncovered at here are on permanent display at Dudley Museum in St James Road.
		In Victorian times, many Himley villagers worked for the Earl of Dudley, and their children were educated in the high beamed one room school house which is now a part of the Himley Country Hotel.
		Situated close to Dudley town centre the Village Hotel is ideally located for Dudley Castle and Zoo, the Black Country Living Museum, Baggeride Country Park, Halfpenny Green Vineyards and Winery as well as Merry Hill Shopping Centre.
	www.touruk.co.uk /west-midlands/dudley.htm (464 words)

	The Black Country Museum - Dudley Canal
		Because of the millions of tons of coal been transported on the canals it was deemed necessary to build a second canal.
		Work commenced in 1855, this tunnel was to be wider than its predecessor (27 feet) with towpaths on either side.The canal runs parallel to the Dudley tunnel with a distance of 1 1/4 miles between them.
		The Netherton tunnel was opened to traffic on the 25th March 1858.
	upthecut.users.btopenworld.com /canals2/blackc.htm (401 words)

	Journeys on the BCN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As we had navigated all except Dudley Tunnel, Parkhead Locks and the Stourbridge Arm that summer, we decided that we should complete the missing sections.
		The main problem was that the Stourbridge Arm could hardly be described as navigable, and Dudley Tunnel was a trifle small, and we couldn't use an engine in it anyway.
		The tunnels were fascinating, with their different shapes, especially in the unlined portions.
	www.tclayton.demon.co.uk /bcn2.html (768 words)

	DudleyMall - Pictures of Old Dudley - Dudley Castle
		Dudley Castle was beckoning to us through its entrance gates by the Earl of Dudley's statue, and here we see a view of the Keep.
		The card showing the canal tunnel is probably illustrating the junction close to the present Black Country Museum, and visited by trippers every week on short trips from the museum.
		Lovers Walk was probably more idyllic than the woods by the castle are today, which is a shame, for they were clearly once quite beautiful - even if this painted photograph has a trace of exaggeration.
	www.dudleymall.co.uk /loclhist/olddudley/olddud4.htm (737 words)

	BCN Routes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Dudley Tunnel Branch leaves Tipton Junction heading south west, Dudley Road (A4037) crosses this branch just south of the junction but walking along it is not permitted beyond New Birmingham Road (A4123).
		The road called Dudley Port (A461) crosses over the top of the old main line but then (confusingly) passes under the new line despite the new line being the lower of the two canals.
		It was used until 1955 when BWB moved their yard from the far end to Bradley Stop.The whole branch has since been wiped out by Glebefields housing estate though about 100 yards of the embankment has survived at the far eastern end of the 1774 line.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/bcnroutes.htm (7806 words)

	Tour 2000 BCN + page 7
		The low section at the south end seemed much lower and more likely to scrape the handrails than the Dudley Tunnel, when Earnest was ballasted and just cleared the Tipton gauge.
		Neil was on lock duty in the rain and managed the lock while having conversation with John Rushbrook on the mobile.
		Someone was still in the Dudley Tunnel Trust offices / Blowers green Pump House an they showed more than a passing interest in the acres of green hull above the water line of Earnest.
	www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /tour_00/BCNplus7.html (929 words)

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