Cleuchbrae was a temporary terminus just north of present junction 16. Dinwoodie Green was a temporary terminus between present junctions 16 and 17.
Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
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.
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
It makes the traffic situation in one part of West London much more bearable but it should have been removed more than quarter of a century ago. It's amazing what you can do with a big Meccano kit.
