M62 Whitefield - Rockingstone Moss

Name
Whitefield Rockingstone Moss
Opened
Route
Start point
Junction number at start: 18
Simister
End point
Junction number at end: 22
Rockingstone Moss

This scheme continued west to M60 J17 Whitefield, which was then also part of 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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