Horse-drawn boat emerging, 1954.
The portal around the tunnel entrance is a grade II listed structure. The tunnel was built between 1855 and 1858, is 3027 yards (2768 m.) long, and was the last tunnel in the country to be built in the canal age. It was wide with towpaths on both sides, and allowed boats traveling in both directions to pass; gas lighting was installed, succeeded later by electric lights powered by a generator at the other end of the tunnel, which emerges at Tividale aqueduct on the ‘old’ Wolverhampton to Birmingham Canal line.
Retrace your steps, looking diagonally right for some steps with black and white metal handrails; climb these and bear left to join the path and cross Cobb’s Engine bridge; turn left to Cobb’s Engine House.
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