Cuerden embankment, view north, 3 April 1995

Cuerden embankment, view north (see all photos of the same view)

Lostock culvert can be seen here, complete but not yet covered by earthworks. The watercourse it will carry has not yet been diverted through it.

Date
Direction of view
North
Roads visible

M6 motorway

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The Ringways Map is here

The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.

Red, white and blue

Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?

The sunlit uplands

On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.

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The Heads of the Valleys

The A465 Heads of the Valleys Road is one of the most spectacular trunk roads in the UK, and building it required some of the most remarkable civil engineering. This is the story of how the road was built in the 1960s, and how it's being rebuilt today.