M9 Newbridge - Dechmont

Name
Newbridge Dechmont
Opened
Current route
Start point
Junction number at start: M8 J2
Claylands
End point
Junction number at end: 1
Newbridge
Original route

This scheme included the M8 between Claylands and Dechmont, and was originally all part of M8.

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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The sunlit uplands

On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.

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