2-887-771 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Westway Flyover, A40, Paddington, City of Westminster, London, c1969. Two workers stressing the longitudinal soffit cables inside the box section of the deck units of the Westway Flyover. The individual deck units of the flyover are tied together with steel cables and only when these are stressed and tightened does each span act as a single self-supporting structure. Each span of the flyover contains 53 km of cabling. The cables are each made up of twelve 16 mm thick strands.