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The question, why is the Westway not included on the longest bridge list in the UK? It's an overpass some will cry, but the official longest bridge in Britain is the Bromford Viaduct, which if you're unaware of, is another must see West Midlands concrete structure set within the Bromwich's of Birmingham, surely also an overpass. Anyway, I await your abridged answers with er.. baited breath.
I remember being driven up this section of it as a child and passing the White City Stadium. I don't recall it being that close to the flyover but must have been.
I remember being driven up this section of it as a child and passing the White City Stadium. I don't recall it being that close to the flyover but must have been.
Pretty sure that photo is taken from the top of my block. The evening tv news traffic reports used to show live footage from the same POV which would often lead Nan ensconed in her Parker-Knoll to take a draw from her Woodbine and remark, "There it is, the camera on the roof"
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A Bridge Too Far on 16:19 - Nov 29 with 1505 views
Stupid things you do when you're young and drunk no 258.
I walked home from Paddington on that one night/early hours of the morning
Clever. Probably about the safest and most direct route you could take on foot from Paddington to W10 or 12 back in the day.
Anyone know why they never put an underpass beneath the railway that separated W10 from white city? Would have saved about half hour getting to LR for anyone from Notting Hill.
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A Bridge Too Far on 18:44 - Nov 29 with 1385 views
Clever. Probably about the safest and most direct route you could take on foot from Paddington to W10 or 12 back in the day.
Anyone know why they never put an underpass beneath the railway that separated W10 from white city? Would have saved about half hour getting to LR for anyone from Notting Hill.
Not clever, he lives in Bracknell.
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A Bridge Too Far on 11:24 - Nov 30 with 1207 views
I remember being driven up this section of it as a child and passing the White City Stadium. I don't recall it being that close to the flyover but must have been.
That little missing bit on the right is where they were going to extend it but never did (can't remember why funds/planning)
They told me that at the 'Urban studies center' of any one remembers that place.
Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent
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A Bridge Too Far on 11:32 - Nov 30 with 1184 views
The M1 was built to extend from Staples Corner. Squinting at the plan here, it looks like the roads would have followed the rail lines...up to Willesden Junction from White City, across the old North London Line/Overground to West Hampstead, then up to Staples Corner. Round here, it would have followed the Barnes Bridge line from the top of Kew Bridge to Putney.
Clever. Probably about the safest and most direct route you could take on foot from Paddington to W10 or 12 back in the day.
Anyone know why they never put an underpass beneath the railway that separated W10 from white city? Would have saved about half hour getting to LR for anyone from Notting Hill.
Parents live just by Oxford gardens school and there was some discussion a couple years ago about an underpass under the railways tracks from Latimer road on to wood lane but some residents kicked up a fuss because they were worried it would bring in gangs from the white City estate or some rubbish like that ha ha
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