Bip 89 Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 Welcome Gravelly Hills Cop enjoy your stay.. Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 22 Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 Ditto.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 87 Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 Gravelly Hills: Posh name for 'Spaghetti Junction', I believe.. Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 22 Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 Mmmm sneaky little monkey he is Rob! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 127 Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 A little known piece of trivia about Spaghetti Junction aka The Gravelly Hill Interchange. The road layout was specially designed so that if Britain did switch to driving on the right then there would be no problems - just switch the signs around. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 288 Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 A little known piece of trivia about Spaghetti Junction aka The Gravelly Hill Interchange.The road layout was specially designed so that if Britain did switch to driving on the right then there would be no problems - just switch the signs around. I know another bit of trivia. The hand rails and their mounting brakets were made by two different companies and one worked in metric and one in imperial so after the first one was connected the rest didn't match up,to get round the problem the forman of that gang of labourers got them to glue them on to each other, so that they didn't fall behind schedual and lose produtivity bonuses(This was only descovered in some routine maintenance in the 80s and put right) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,015 Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 Wasnt there a cock up when Clifton Bridge was built? One flyover was too low for Double Decker buses to pass under? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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