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The M62 is a 107-mile-long (172 km) west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield; 7 miles (11 km) of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester. The road is part of the unsigned Euroroutes E20 (Shannon to Saint Petersburg) and E22 (Holyhead to Ishim).
The motorway, which was first proposed in the 1930s, and conceived as two separate routes, was opened in stages between 1971 and 1976, with construction beginning at Pole Moor near Huddersfield and finishing at that time in Tarbock on the outskirts of Liverpool. The motorway absorbed the northern end of the Stretford-Eccles bypass, which was built between 1957 and 1960.
Adjusted for inflation to 2007, its construction cost approximately £765 million. The motorway has an average daily traffic flow of 144,000 vehicles in West Yorkshire, and has several sections prone to gridlock, in particular, between Leeds and Huddersfield and the M60 section around Eccles. The M62 coach bombing of 1974 and the Great Heck rail crash of 2001 are the largest incidents to have occurred on the motorway.
Stott Hall Farm, situated between the carriageways on the Pennine section, has become one of the best-known sights on the motorway. The M62 has no junctions numbered 1, 2 or 3, or even an officially numbered 4, because it was intended to start in Liverpool proper, not in its outskirts.
Between Liverpool and Manchester, and east of Leeds, the terrain along which the road passes is relatively flat. Between Manchester and Leeds it traverses the Pennines and its foothills, rising to 1,221 feet (372 m) above sea level slightly east of junction 22 in Calderdale, not far from the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.
^Marshall, Chris. "M62 motorway". Motorway Database. Chris's British Road Directory. Retrieved 19 May 2007.[self-published source]
The M62 is a 107-mile-long (172 km) west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds...
3-mile (4.8 km) stretch of motorway in West Yorkshire, England. Called the Bradford Spur motorway, the M606 leaves the M62motorway at junction 26, near Cleckheaton...
motorway in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England. It is 8 miles (13 km) long and provides part of the route between the M62 and M60 motorways and...
of the M62motorway. In anticipation of the 1974 opening of the westward extension of the M62 to Liverpool, the existing section of motorway south of...
westbound carriageways of the M62motorway in Calderdale, England. It is the only farm in the UK situated in the middle of a motorway and was built in the 18th...
The M62 coach bombing, sometimes referred to as the M62 Massacre, occurred on 4 February 1974 on the M62motorway in northern England, when a 25-pound...
7-mile (12.4 km) loop of motorway in West Yorkshire, England that takes traffic into central Leeds between the M1 and M62motorways. The first section of...
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city, as well as the M62 and M58 motorways. Starting at the Tarbock Interchange in Tarbock, at the end of the A5300, the motorway heads north to the east...
have been built to provide links to the growing UK motorway network. However, at the same time, the M62 was being extended north and east of Worsley, around...
Eastern Motorway, where it met the Leeds South Western Motorway (M621) coming north-east from the M62 at junction 3. In July 1972, the then UK Minister for...
a Renault Savanna estate car), left the carriageway of the westbound M62motorway just before a bridge over the East Coast Main Line. The vehicle travelled...
Greater Manchester Police who was murdered at Birch Services on the M62motorway near Heywood, Greater Manchester, in 1989. Raymond Codling was born on...
one of the highest points on any motorway in the UK (Junction 22 of the M62 on Moss Moor is higher). The motorway engineers here chose to follow the...
section between North Cave and Hull forms the eastward continuation of the M62motorway and is part of the unsigned Euroroute E20. The route from Leeds out to...
carrying the B6114 (the former A6025) Elland to Buckstones road over the M62motorway in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The bridge and Scammonden Reservoir...
of the years 62 BC, AD 62, 1962, 2062 Maybach 62, an ultra-luxury car M62motorway in the UK "Sixty Two", a song by Karma to Burn from the album Mountain...
Cleckheaton on the A643. It is close to the Hartshead Moor services on the M62motorway. In 1974 the service station was near the scene of a Provisional Irish...
Wavertree area of Liverpool, England between the city centre and the M62motorway. It comprises single storey parades of pavilion-style office units. The...
Booth and Dig Gate farms to its first culvert, beneath the M62motorway. North of the M62, the brook drops down a cascade of 17 concrete steps, including...
Rochdale Canal in the west. Milnrow is adjacent to junction 21 of the M62motorway, and includes the village of Newhey, and hamlets at Tunshill and Ogden...
stretch of the UK motorway network, it held this record for just 58 days however, as it was soon superseded by a stretch of the M62motorway across the Pennines...
Hartshead Moor services is a motorway service station on the M62 near Brighouse, West Yorkshire. It is the highest service station in the United Kingdom...
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