 North of here, it would have continued to follow the West London line, crossing the Great Western railway and the Grand Union Canal, linking with the North Cross Route by Willesden Junction.Ringway 2 was an upgrade of North Circular Road and a new motorway to replace the South Circular Road, which, in the 1960s, were sign-posted routes circling the capital through the suburbs on mostly standard roads selected by route planners in the 1930s.Ringway 2 would have headed roughly in a direction towards the North Circular Road at Chiswick, though there was no definite proposed route.