Westway (London)

For other uses of Westway, see Westway

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Westway, or The Westway is the main route from central London to the northwestern suburbs and beyond. It starts at the junction of Euston Road and Tottenham Court Road, and goes all the way to west Wales as the A40 trunk road. Strictly speaking, the name Westway applies to only the section between Marylebone and Savoy Circus in Acton; other parts are known by different names, such as Euston Road, Western Avenue, London Road, etc. Nevertheless, some people informally (and incorrctly) refer to the whole road as The Westway, even though westwards from Savoy Circus the road's formal name is Western Avenue. The infamous Hanger Lane Gyratory System is its intersection with the North Circular Road; it makes an end-on junction with the M40 motorway about a mile north-west of Uxbridge, at the Denham Roundabout.

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London - Euston Road - Tottenham Court Road - Wales - A40 - Marylebone - Acton - Western Avenue - Hanger Lane Gyratory System - North Circular Road - M40 - Uxbridge - Denham Roundabout

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A notable landmark on Western Avenue at Perivale is the Art Deco Hoover Building, now a supermarket.

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Perivale - Art Deco - Hoover Building

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The Hoover building is referred to in a song by Elvis Costello and "Westway" is the title of a tune by the 1980s rock band Sky. 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. 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. This track is such a great groove for driving and it got its name because if I put it on at the Marylebone Road end of the Westway and stuck right on the speed limit, it would finish just as I came off the other end."

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Elvis Costello - 1980s - Sky - Herbie Flowers - Francis Monkman

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