M61 interchange, view west, 17 July 1996
M61 interchange, view west (see all photos of the same view)
The course of the whole motorway west from the M61 to its terminus at Bamber Bridge can be seen here. In the foreground, kerblines now mark out the shape of the interchange and its sliproads.
Structure 14/14a (M61 interchange bridges)
M61 motorway
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The monster seen from below
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The road that made no sense
It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.
The forever bottleneck, part 2
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
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M1 under construction
Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.
