Calendar 2008
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Back due to popular demand! In 2008, why not hang something of real worth on your wall? No more allegedly hilarious "His 'n' Hers" cartoon calendars or kitten photos for your important dates. Instead, get yourself a selection of twelve road-lover's photographs, taken from over, under and around some of Britain's most interesting and unusual road features.
The Calendar is now available for £9.99 (excluding postage and packaging). Take a look at the images below to see what you could hang on your wall. You can also preview the page layout. The pages (i.e. half the spread when opened out) are 28 x 21.6cm (11 x 8.5in).
The CBRD Calendar 2008 is now shipping - order now, or pass the link on to your loved ones if they keep asking what to buy you for Christmas.
January
The Hogarth Flyover, carrying A316 traffic over the A4 in west London. A photo gallery showcasing this magnificent piece of "temporary" engineering appeared on CBRD earlier this year.
February
The Stockport Viaduct carries the four-track railway south from Manchester. It is, apparently, the largest single brick structure in Europe. Its designers could never have imagined that one day it might cross the M60 and A560, as seen here.
March
1960s planners wanted this to be a fast-moving merge point. In 21st century Gateshead, it's a wait at a red traffic light with your arm out of the window.
April
The UK is unusual in having almost entirely hand-painted road markings. Almost anywhere else in the world will use stencils. The "SLOW" marking seen here is one of the peculiarly British things about our roads.
May
Wellesley Road in Croydon, and in the foreground, the Croydon Underpass. This relic of 1950s redevelopment is surrounded by tall buildings that don't feel much like the rest of south London.
A feature on the Croydon Ring Road is in preparation.
June
Another piece of 1950s design - the Luton spur from junction 10 of the M1 stretches out in a perfectly straight line.
July
A gleaming new road sign on a sunny day. The new A1(M) motorway in West Yorkshire brings new direction signs to all the surrounding primary routes.
August
The peculiar dog-bone roundabout in Warrington is part of the never-finished Birchwood Way arterial road. A flyover would fit neatly across the top of this. Until then it remains another incomplete New Town.
September
Somewhere in rural Buckinghamshire, a country lane covered by a leafy arch of trees seems to encounter a tunnel. Not quite - it's actually a handsome Owen Williams bridge carrying the M1 over the top.
October
Three levels of grim concrete - it can only be an urban road from the 1960s. The west-to-north sliproad at junction 3 sums up all that is good and bad about the Coventry Ring Road.
November
Officially the widest road in Britain: the Guinness World Record people counted 17 parallel lanes here. I counted 18, but either way it's very wide. The M61 at Worsley Braided Interchange.
December
An anonymous street in south-west London harbours this handsome old direction sign. There's something worrying about the thought that the A205 South Circular Road is still unchanged since this sign was erected in the late 1950s.
With thanks to Friya for helping to select the photographs this year.
