Just been through the Wast Hill Tunnel twice as we went from Alvechurch to Stratford on Avon an back. Interesting coming back as we met three novice boaters heading towards Birmingham who froze with fear. It is quite daunting going through both this and the Netherton tunel, they are both long and dark and damp. Netherton has a towpath through it Wast hills does not and would have been legged in the old days like the tunnel at the Black Country Museum. You can walk the towpath from the northern exit of the tunnel through to Gas Street Basin or turn right and go to Stratford on Avon. From the south end you can walk all the way to Worcester. In fact you can towpath walk all the canals around Birmingham. Interesting reading the stories about the Lapal tunnel, if they are going to try and reopen it, it would be superb, but a very costly job as I understand the rock fall that closed it was quite severe. Apparently it was a ver busy route when it was open