Ladbroke Grove tube station is on the road where it is crossed by Westway.

Westway is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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In the eastbound direction, a lane is lost as a slip-road descends to cross the National Rail tracks to Paddington station via the large plate-girder Westbourne Bridge, a road that previously carried traffic from Harrow Road to Bishops Bridge Road but was blocked at the north end and appropriated for the Westway scheme.

The full line is: " London's so nice back in your seamless rhymes, But we're lost on the Westway ".

The Westway is also mentioned in Blur's songs " Fool's Day " and " Under the Westway ".

It is also referenced in the Pete Doherty song ' Broken Love Song ' in the line ' By the * Westway / Inside The Scrubs ' as he once claimed to have lived beside the Westway in a caravan.

* In the Alex Rider series, a crash is staged on the Westway.

* The Westway is also featured on the front cover of A Weekend in the City by Bloc Party.

Frome's only cinema, the Westway, is in Cork Street in the town centre.

The north-bound street is called " Martins Lane ", the east-bound street is " High Street ", south-bound is " The Slade ", and west-bound is " Silver Street ", which leads to the more recent housing developments of " Westway Place " and " The Orchards ".

It is close to the elevated Westway section of the A40 road.

A twisted adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the story's protagonist, Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect, finds himself stranded in a manmade ' island ' ( a section of fenced-off wasteland in the middle of a motorway intersection ) between the Westway and an imagined spur of the M4 Motorway in west London, and is forced to survive on only what is in his crashed Jaguar and what he is able to find.

Ladbroke Grove tube station is located on the road, at the point where it is crossed by the Westway.

The White City Stadium site, in Wood Lane adjacent to the Westway overpass and once part of the Exhibition, is now occupied by the BBC's Media Village.

The films The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) and Never Let Go ( 1960 ) depict many Paddington streets, which suffered bombing in World War II and were subsequently demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the Westway elevated road and the Warwick Estate housing redevelopment.

At Marble Arch it joins the A5 Edgware Road as far as the Marylebone Flyover to become Westway ; formerly classified A40 ( M ) as an elevated motorway, it has now been downgraded to ' A ' road status.

Between the elevated Westway and Flyover, a short ( 100 m ) section of surface-level road allows westbound traffic from the Flyover to turn-off on to the Harrow Road ( A404 ) or eastbound traffic from the Harrow Road to access the Flyover.

Continuing westward, the Westway runs parallel with the main-line railway for about before turning south-west at Westbourne Park and crossing the railway to run immediately adjacent to London Underground's Hammersmith and City Line for as far as Ladbroke Grove station, after which it returns to a more east-west alignment for the to the elevated roundabout junction with the West Cross Route ( A3220 ) and flyover that takes vehicles high above the roundabout and Wood Lane ( A219 ) to return to ground level and connect to the end of Western Avenue.

The route of the Westway was chosen to follow the easiest path from Western Avenue to Paddington by following the route of existing railway lines but passing an eight lane elevated motorway through densely populated Victorian North Kensington involved the clearance of a large number of buildings adjacent to the railway, particularly in the area west of Westbourne Park, where many roads were unceremoniously truncated or demolished to make way for the concrete structures.

Prior to the construction of the Westway and the elevated roundabout that joins it to the West Cross Route ( A3220 ), Latimer Road ran further south and closer to the station.

Every night, I would drive home along the Westway elevated road and listen on my car tape player to what we'd done that day.

The adjacent bridge and nearby section of the Westway ( London ) was regenerated in 2007 in a partnership including Urban Eye, Transport for London and London Underground.

Westfield Group ( with Hausinvest Europa ) has built a new shopping centre, bounded by the West Cross Route ( A3220, formerly the M41 motorway ), the Westway ( A40 ) and Wood Lane ( A219 ).

Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough.

It runs east-west from the Euston Road at Regent's Park to the A40 Westway at Paddington.

The Westfield Group ( with Hausinvest Europa ) opened a shopping centre in October 2008, bounded by the West Cross Route ( A3220, was the M41 ), the Westway ( A40, previously A40 ( M )), and Wood Lane ( opposite the BBC ), A219 ( also the old A40 ).

The Westway opened in July 1970 as the A40 ( M ) motorway but lost motorway status in 2000 when responsibility for trunk roads in Greater London was transferred from the Highways Agency to the Greater London Authority.

It runs north from Shepherd's Bush, under the Westway ( A40 ) past Wormwood Scrubs where it meets Scrubs Lane.

Unusually, Latimer Road and the station that bears its name are not geographically close, being approximately 500 metres apart and on opposite sides of the Westway Flyover ( A40 road ) – the road being to the north and the station to the south.

East of this point is Westway, part of the A40 Central London link from Paddington.

Occasionally he would sit in a deckchair in the fast lane of the Westway ( A40 ) in North Kensington, reading the Daily Telegraph.

With the extension westward of the London Congestion Charge Zone between 19 February 2007 and 4 January 2011, the part of the road between Westbourne Park and the Westway roundabout that passed through the zone was designated as a " free through route " that allowed vehicles to cross the zone without paying the charge.

The first stretch to be built was the Westway from Marylebone to Acton, which involved the demolition of thousands of homes and building a large concrete flyover which continues to be the major route into central London from the west.

It focused on life in and around the fictional Westway Health Centre in west London, and was named after the main route into London from the north west.

The Westway is served by the 52 Lawrence Avenue West TTC bus route.

At its eastern end, the Westway starts to the west of the Marylebone Flyover ( A501 ), which takes traffic over the junction of Edgware Road ( A5 ) and Marylebone Road ( A501 ).

Heading west, the Westway rises sharply as it passes Paddington Green ( at this point having two lanes in each direction ), then crosses the Grand Union Canal branch to Paddington Basin just south of Little Venice.

Alan and Ted formed Cloaca, ( which also had Stefan Heller on bass guitar, Simon Thomas on vocals and guitar and eventually were joined by Mike Christer on guitar ), a band which played many gigs in the west London area supporting the likes of Gary Numan's ' Tubeway army ' and ' Henry Strand and the Westway Band ' featuring The Clash's Mick Jones and Joe Strummer.

The Westway was built to form a link from Paddington to Ringway 1, the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network, part of a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high speed roads circling and radiating out from central London designed to manage and control the flow of traffic within the capital.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

Plan of the London Motorway Box scheme from mid 1960s showing the Westway

* Justin Clack of Frost Meadowcroft writes about Westway ( London ) in Umbrella Magazine issue 4 in an article " Something In The Air ".

The northern stretch of this road ( from the Westway to Scrubs Lane ) runs parallel to the boundary of the London congestion charge zone.

On the album notes bass player Herbie Flowers, who co-wrote the tune with Francis Monkman, says of " Westway ": " When we recorded this album, I was living out in West London, and the studio was in Central London.

Inside the foldout sleeve are various pictures of Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies playing together underneath the Westway in London.