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Aerial photograph of a new motorway crossing flat green countryside on an embankment. It bridges a canal and a railway, which run from the bottom of the picture towards the top, and there are patches of woodland between the green fields
Caption
The new M40 crosses a railway and a canal near King's Sutton, south of Banbury, in 1991.
Original size
1600×1078
What's new
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
Grand openings
Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.
Silver bullet
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Have you seen...
Studland Motor Road
The first motorway opened in 1958. The first road restricted to motor traffic, on the other hand, opened in 1923...
