M6 motorway

M6 motorway in the UK
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Basic data
Operator:	Highways Agency
Overall length:	373.7 km (232.2  mi )
Countries :	England
Development condition:	six lanes
The M6 ​​in Cumbria's Lune Valley
Course of the road Leicestershire The SOUTH , Northampton , Felixstowe , Corby , Kettering Warwickshire (1)  Rugby , Lutterworth (2)  Coventry , Leicester B4065 (3)  Bedworth, Coventry, Nuneaton B4113 Corley (3A)  The NORTH WEST , Lichfield , Tamworth ( ) ( ABG Rugby) (4)  The SOUTH WEST , Birmingham , Birmingham Airport , NEC, Coventry West Midlands (4A)  The NORTH , The SOUTH (ABG Carlisle) (5)  Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield ( HAS Rugby) (6)  Birmingham, Lichfield (7)  Birmingham, Walsall (8th)  The SOUTH WEST, Birmingham, West Bromwich (9)  Wednesbury (10)  Walsall, Wolverhampton B4464 Staffordshire (10A)  NORTH & MID WALES, Wolverhampton, Telford (ABG Rugby) Hilton Park (11)  Cannock , Wolverhampton (11A)  The SOUTH (ABG Carlisle) (12)  Telford, NORTH WALES, Cannock, Wolverhampton ( ) (13)  Stafford (14)  Stafford, Stone, Eccleshall Stafford (towards rugby) Stafford (towards Carlisle) (15)  Stoke , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Stone, Eccleshall Keele (16)  Stoke, Crewe, Nantwich, Chester B5078 Cheshire Sandbach (17)  Congleton , Sandbach (18)  Middlewich , Northwich , Chester, Holmes Chapel Knutsford (19)  Manchester , Manchester Airport , Stockport , Knutsford , Macclesfield (20)  NORTH WALES, Runcorn , Birkenhead , Chester, Stockport, Manchester Airport, Lymm, Warrington B5158 Thelwall Viaduct over the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal (1,350 m) (21)  Warrington, Irlam B5210 (21A)  Liverpool , Southport , Manchester, Bolton , Leeds Bristol (22)  Newton, Leigh, Warrington Merseyside (23)  St Helens , Liverpool, Southport, Manchester, Newton-le-Willows Greater Manchester (24)  St Helens, Ashton (HAS Carlisle) (25)  Wigan (HAS Rugby) (26)  Skelmersdale , Liverpool, Southport (27)  Parbold, Standish, Chorley, Wigan Lancashire Charnock Richard (28)  Leyland B5256 (29)  Burnley , Blackburn , Preston (30)  Manchester, Bolton, Leeds, Blackburn (HAS Carlisle) (31)  Preston , Blackburn, Clitheroe (31A)  Preston, Longridge B6242 (32)  Blackpool , Fleetwood, Preston, Garstang Lancaster (33)  Lancaster, Garstang, Fleetwood (34)  Lancaster , Kirkby Lonsdale, Morecambe , Heysham Lune (35)  Carnforth , Morecambe Cumbria Burton-in-Kendal (towards Carlisle) (36)  South Lakes , Kendal , Barrow , Kirkby Lonsdale , Skipton Killington Lake (towards rugby) (37)  Kendal , Sedbergh (38)  Kendal, Brough, Appleby B6260 Tebay (39)  Shap , Kendal Lowther Eamont (40)  Penrith , North Lakes , Keswick , Brough, Scotch Corner (41)  Wigton B5305 Southwaite (42)  Carlisle B6263 (43)  Carlisle, Hexham , Newcastle (44)  Galashiels , Hawick , Carlisle Todhills (45)  Gretna Green , Longtown B7076 SCOTLAND, Dumfries and Galloway On to  Glasgow

The M6 motorway ( English for, M6 ') is the longest highway of the United Kingdom .

The M6 ​​is 232 miles (373 km) long and connects the M1 motorway at Rugby with Carlisle near the border with Scotland . The M6 ​​is one of the busiest motorways in Great Britain, depending on how it is counted.

History and special features

The first section of the highway near Preston was opened by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on December 5, 1958 . This part of the M6 ​​is fighting for the title of the first motorway in Great Britain with the first section of the M1. The first part of the M6 ​​was finished earlier, but very short and it was not built for a long time.

The two directions of travel are shared between Shap and Tebay and a road runs between the two lanes without there being any driveway at the point.

The last 6 mile (9.7 km) long section between Carlisle and the Scottish border (connection to the A74 (M) Motorway ) was opened on December 5, 2008 and thus the so-called " Cumberland Gap" was closed.

Planned expansions

The A556 (M) link is intended to link the M6 ​​with the M56 to Manchester. The planning approval procedure for this street has been going on for many years.

See also

• Gravelly Hill Interchange
• List of motorways in Great Britain
• Motorway M6 great

Web links

Commons : M6 motorway  - collection of images

• Information on the M6 ​​at cbrd.co.uk