Old Turn Junction

Old Turn Junction is a canal junction in Birmingham, England, where the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal meets the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal. The junction features a circular island, 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 (main western approach to New Street Station) runs a few yards north east of the junction, under the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. The fingerpost at the junction was added on May 21, 1983, the first of many canal junctions to be signposted under John Phillips' leadership of the BCN Society. Once at the heart of an industrial area, the junction is...