The canal, which is 2.25 miles long, was cut in 1844.

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Bordesley Junction connects the Birmingham and Warwick Canal to the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Branch Canal. It features a cast-iron roving bridge made by the Horseley ironworks in 1840.

Heading northwards from Bordesley Junction, barges travelling on the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Branch Canal will pass beneath beneath Glover Street and both carriages of Watery Lane (A4540).

From Saint Andrews, the canal passes beneath Garrison Lane and through the Top Lock of the Garrison Lane Flight (58-62).

The flight consists of five locks that adjust the level by 21 metres enabling barges to descend from Bordesley to Saltley.

Here, the canal passes beneath three viaducts within barely 100 metres. 

The first carries a linking line between the Birmingham-Peterborough Railway and the West Coast Mainline; the second carries the Birmingham-Peterborough Line; and the third, the West Coast Mainline.

Continuing north-eastwards from the Proof House Rail Junction, the canal passes through lock 59, the second of the Garrison Lane Flight, before reaching the stock car track at the Wheels Adventure Park and travelling beneath Landor Street: a notorious meeting-point for boy racers.

From Landor Street, the canal continues northwards through the Adderley Trading Estate and then beneath Duddeston Mill Road and into Saltley.

Heading northwards through Saltley, the canal passes through the Garrison Lane Bottom Lock (62) by Cranby Street Bridge and then travels beneath Saltley Viaduct and through Saltley Trading Estate.

From there, the route continues beneath the Birmingham-Peterborough Railway and A47 Heartlands Parkway before passing through the Mount Street Business Park in Nechells.

From Mount Street, the canal continues past the Saltley Gas Towers and beneath Aston Church Road and a railway viaduct carrying the Stechford Avoiding Line.

It then passes Star City: a leisure park with a multiplex cinema, 10 restaurants, mini-golf, goals and climbing centres, tenpin bowling, laser and fun stations.

Heading northwards from Star City, the canal passes beneath the M6 before terminating at Nechells Shallow Lock at Salford Canal Junction.

This lock divides the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Branch Canal from the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. It was installed to prevent water transference between the canals but is now permanently left open.