M62 Liverpool (The Rocket) - Tarbock

Liverpool (The Rocket) Tarbock
Opened
Route
M62
Start point
4
The Rocket
End point
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.

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