M62 Liverpool (The Rocket) - Tarbock

Name
Liverpool (The Rocket) Tarbock
Opened
Route
Start point
Junction number at start: 4
The Rocket
End point
Junction number at end: 6
Tarbock

Only the eastbound carriageway opened to traffic. The westbound carriageway opened on 27 November 1976 once the Rocket Flyover had been completed.

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.

In this section

What's new

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.

The forever bottleneck, part 1

The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.

Hello, here's my ridiculous side project

An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.

Share this page

Have you seen...

Mancunian Way

Manchester's highway in the sky, carrying traffic around the city centre and rapidly becoming an iconic part of the city's heritage.