M60 Whitefield - Rockingstone Moss

Whitefield Rockingstone Moss
Opened
Current route
M60
Start point
17
Whitefield
End point
18
Simister
Original route
M62

This scheme continued east to M62 J22 Rockingstone Moss, and at the time it opened was all M62.

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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