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Descriptive text
A black and white photograph showing a wide, brand new road, with no road markings, curving away through a deep man-made cutting.
Caption
Rayleigh Cutting on the brand-new London-Southend Road, seen as the road neared completion in 1925.
Original size
1600×1085
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...
The Magic Roundabout
Officially the seventh most frightening thing on the road network - but actually it might just be the most efficient junction ever designed.
