Aberdour Road was a temporary terminus between present junctions 2 and 3.
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.
London’s notorious orbital motorway turns 40 years old today. Where did it come from - and why the number “25”?
When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?
The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.
The UK's widest motorway is not where you might expect to find it — in fact, it's on the unassuming M61 near Manchester. This gallery offers an overhead view of one of the UK's most unique and spacious interchanges.
