Steve wrote: > At a conference at Vale Village at the University of > Birmingham later this month. Next to canal, and uni's map > shows a bridge from the towpath (not on my old Nicholson's or > OS). Question is, walk it (with some luggage) from Five Ways > station through Edgbaston Tunnel (any access to towpath from > A540?), or from University station (access by bridge 82)? Or > forget that and go through campus?
Along this section the canal runs alongside the railway, with the towpath between the two. I cannot recall any access to the towpath in this area between just south of Salvage Turn and Selly Oak. So I think the best you can do is to walk through the campus, and peer over the bridge parapet to see the canal. David Mack
