Digbeth Branch Canal

The 1¼ mile long canal has six locks descending 40 feet from Aston Junction; the final lock will be located under the final approach to High Speed 2's Birmingham Curzon Street railway station.

After that final lock, the canal passes through a grade II listed tunnel carrying the lines eastwards from Birmingham New Street railway station, and originally the lines to the original Curzon Street station.

In modern times, Digbeth Junction is sometimes regarded as the junction with the Grand Union Canal, but historically the through route goes a little further, under a former railway bridge, and meets the Grand Union Canal (originally the Warwick and Birmingham Canal) at the Warwick Bar stop lock just to the rear of Birmingham Proof House.

From here, the Grand Union Canal continues the route onwards to Bordesley Junction.

All of the canal between Ashted Lock at Jennens Road (formerly the A47) and Great Barr Street (Bordesley) is within the Warwick Bar Conservation Area.