The other engine, also built by Boulton and Watt, was at the other end of the summit level at Spon Lane.

In the 1820s, Thomas Telford constructed a new canal parallel to the old in a deeper cutting, at the 453 ft (138.1 m) Birmingham Level, creating the largest man-made earthworks in the world at the time.

In 1892, a replacement engine was built in a new pumping house, now Grade II listed,[5][6] next to Brasshouse Lane, as the original Smethwick Engine was considered uneconomic to repair; the latter was removed for preservation in 1897–98[7] to the BCN, later British Waterways, Ocker Hill depot where it remained until acquired by Birmingham City Council.

Tours of the site can be arranged through the Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre which is based in the New Smethwick Pumping Station and regularly opened by Sandwell Museum Service and The Friends of Galton Valley.

The pumping station was featured in an episode of The Water Boatman presented by Alan Herd on the Discovery Shed TV channel in November 2011.[relevant?]