What is the biggest spaghetti junction in the world?
Gravelly Hill, Birmingham, UK (Spaghetti Junction)It was opened in 1972 and rises to a height of 24.5 metres. It is, in places, five levels high and the construction includes 559 concrete columns.
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At peak times, thousands of pedestrians scramble across what's believed to be the world's busiest intersection -- Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing.
Gravelly Hill Interchange is the UK's busiest motorway junction and is one of the country's most iconic concrete structures which turned 50 last year. The winding labyrinth of roads along the M6 is also one of the biggest motorway interchanges in Europe and more than 200,000 vehicles travel on it daily.
Magic Roundabout, SwindonThe Magic Roundabout is often listed as one of the most intimidating junctions in the UK. It's best shown in map form so you can see the complexity of its one-way systems feeding five roundabouts.
While Waterloo may have been stripped of previous titles, it still holds a major accolade. With 24 platforms in use, it's the largest train station in the UK. The largest station outside of London is Edinburgh Waverley, with 20 operating platforms.
By number of platforms, Grand Central, on 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan, is the world's largest railway station. Not only is it perhaps the most famous station in the world, the Beaux-Arts terminal is one of the most beautiful. It's affectionately known by New Yorkers as 'the world's loveliest station. '
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof (Leipzig main station, IATA: XIT) is the central railway terminus in Leipzig, Germany, in the district Mitte. At 83,460 square metres (898,400 sq ft), it is Europe's largest railway station measured by floor area.
Hardknott Pass is a hill pass between Eskdale and the Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England. The tarmac-surfaced road, which is the most direct route from the central Lake District to West Cumbria, shares the title of steepest road in England with Rosedale Chimney Bank in North Yorkshire.
Of the 1,987 people killed or seriously injured on the SRN in 2018, 245 occurred on the M25 alone. There were also 371 in the south-east of England, 342 in the Midlands, 292 in the east, 287 in Yorkshire and the north-east, 226 in the north-west and 224 in the south-west.