M6/A6 interchange culvert works, view south east, 29 April 1996

M6/A6 interchange culvert works, view south east (see all photos of the same view)

Realigning the sliproad at the top of the picture will require the construction of a new embankment to carry it at higher level further from the motorway. The culvert carrying the small watercourse seen here will need to be extended. In advance of that, a temporary diversion of the watercourse is being built and lined with bright blue plastic.

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Direction of view
South East

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The sunlit uplands

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

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