Sujet

Westway Flyover, A40, Paddington, City of Westminster, London, 01/08/1969. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Westway Flyover, A40, Paddington, City of Westminster, London, 01/08/1969. A Routemaster bus passing a concrete batching plant on Great Western Road, whilst the transporter crane lowers a deck unit of the Westway Flyover into place. The transporter crane was specially designed and built by Laing's Plant Department. The four-legged gantry made 400 trips along the carriageway of Section 5, lifting the individual deck units from the Harrow Road end, transporting them the length of the highway and lowering them into position. The deck units for Section 5 weigh up to 130 tonnes and are more than 28 metres wide, carrying all six lanes of the carriageway. The units are supported on a temporary structure of steel beams weighing 160 tons until each span is complete, stressed together and self-supporting. This photograph was taken at grid reference TQ2491181834.

Date

1969

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A18_083

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

100,3Mo (4,1Mo) / 56,5cm x 44,5cm / 6674 x 5253 (300dpi)

Mots clés

driving transport transportation road building London England red engineering country construction British bus English color location infrastructure century double decker flyover public transport Britain civil engineering Sixties road Transport omnibus Colour Paddington Construction Industry double-decker 1960s 20th century City of Westminster London Transport TGN photograph road building two decker A40 Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding concrete batching plant John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Westway