The £10m UK motorway with bizarre nickname and entirely 'different world' beneath it

Green and eerie scenes beneath Spaghetti junction (Image: BBC)

It has 1 of the astir recognisable names for a roadworthy junction successful the UK, but what lies beneath it is simply a enigma to most.

Aptly named Spaghetti Junction, built astir 52 years ago, is 1 of the country's champion known factual structures of flyovers carrying thousands of vehicles connected the outskirts of Birmingham for astir hours of each day.

It is officially called the Gravelly Hill Interchange, but astir drivers utilizing the M6 motorway telephone it by its colloquial sanction Spaghetti Junction, owed to its 5 levels and the seemingly endless loop of roads intersecting determination arsenic 18 routes merge.

To thrust each azygous way which merges determination would screen 73 miles, according to National Highways. The sanction was coined by paper newsman Roy Smith, who said that from the entity it looked similar spaghetti connected a plate.

However, fewer volition person ever seen the 30-acre underside which contains a maze of graffiti covered subways and paths and an unexpected magnitude of greenish space.

Concrete structures covered successful graffiti (Image: BBC)

It besides includes 2 railways lines, the Aston Reservoir, 2 rivers and nary little than 3 canals passing underneath.

The pillars had to beryllium built wide capable to let a horse-drawn constrictive vessel to walk through.

The immense intersection took 4 years to decorativeness from 1972 astatine a outgo of what present seems fund astatine £10 cardinal - and is hoped to past a further seventy years.

Birmingham Live Features Writer Kirsty Bosley described the contrasting "creepy and peaceful" scenes beneath pursuing a caller stroll.

She wrote: "As overmuch arsenic I wanted to bask a peaceful stroll, it each felt a bit... creepy?

A factual labyrinth of pillars awaits walkers beneath the junction (Image: BBC)

Green abstraction and h2o nether the sprawling junction (Image: BBC)

"In parts, my rotation astir the reservoir had been beautiful. On the westbound broadside of it, furthest distant from the junction, successful particular. Aside from sliding successful goose poop occasionally, and questioning whether the swans were affable oregon if I was astatine hazard of them snapping my arms.

"Further around, though, I kept peeping implicit my shoulder. Maybe it was the garbage that had been dumped nether the aged bridge, the graffiti, weeds and a motion threatening the 'danger of death', but it felt successful crisp opposition to the peaceful broadside of the water.

"That's the happening astir this area, I accidental - it's 1 of crisp contrasts. Birds and butterflies are making the astir of those weeds, and aged Birmingham, it's canal and the reservoir, archer of our concern past arsenic modern electrical cars and trucks afloat of online buying parcels velocity overhead."