A short stub beyond Ryder's Green Junction is connected to the network but difficult to navigate.

[1] Wednesbury Old Canal leaves the main line Birmingham level at Pudding Green Junction and passes through a completely industrial landscape.

Just before the locks Wednesbury Old Canal veers off and commences its meandering route through Swan Village and, originally, around the collieries.

[1] The Wednesbury Canal is dry from this point, but the Ridgacre Branch continues, watered for most of its original length (without its branches) past the culverted road and, although inaccessible to boats, is now used for fishing, walking and is a valued wildlife habitat.

Some modern sources mark the Ridgacre as starting at Ryder's Green Junction but this is not historically correct.