Longdyke was a temporary terminus just south of present junction 7.
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.
Why am I all nostalgic about some street lights being replaced?
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.
How do you describe a road? One way is to use these engineering abbreviations, much loved by the UK's community of road enthusiasts.
