M60 Stretford and Eccles Bypass

Name
Stretford and Eccles Bypass
Opened
Current route
Start point
Junction number at start: 7
Chester Road
End point
Junction number at end: 13
Worsley
Original route
Other numbers held

Present junctions 7 to 12 were part of M63 before becoming M60. Junctions 12 to 13 remained M62 until becoming M60.

Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.

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