Chronology Maps

1963 1964 1965

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Completed Route Name Start End
M90 Forth Road Bridge Northern Approach Roads J1C Admiralty Aberdour Road
A823(M) Forth Road Bridge Northern Approach Roads M90 J2 Masterton Pitreavie
M1 Crick - Lutterworth J18 Crick J20 Misterton
M8 Harthill Bypass Whitburn Shotts
M1 (NI) Birches - Verner’s Corner J12 Birches Verner’s Corner

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The monster seen from below

What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?

The road that made no sense

It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.

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.

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Abbreviations

How do you describe a road? One way is to use these engineering abbreviations, much loved by the UK's community of road enthusiasts.