 Like all of Telford's designs, this would use cuttings and embankments to follow a straight course across the landscape, and his new route reduced the length of the canal by to compared to James Brindley's contour canal.It intersected the Wednesbury Canal at Pudding Green Junction, and was widened and straightened between there and the bottom of Spon Lane Locks, where Bromford Junction was created.From the junction, a huge cutting created the fourth route to Smethwick Junction, in places up to deep.