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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.
A 24-year-old man has died after a car crashed into a bridge on M62, Greater Manchester Police say ... “Initial enquiries have established an Audi A5 S line car was travelling on the M62 before ...
The M62 coach bombing, sometimes referred to as the M62 Massacre, [3] occurred on 4 February 1974 on the M62 motorway in northern England, when a 25-pound (11 kg) [n 1] Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb hidden inside the luggage locker of a coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members exploded, killing twelve people (nine soldiers and three ...
Most of Manchester is encompassed within the motorway, except for the southernmost part of the city (Wythenshawe and Manchester Airport) which is served by the M56. The M60 is 36.1 miles (58.1 km) long and was renamed the M60 in 1998, with parts of the M62 , M66 and all of the M63 being amalgamated into the new route, and the circle completed ...
The Rakewood Viaduct carries the M62 motorway over Rakewood Valley and Longden End Brook between junctions 21 and 22 at Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England. The viaduct is 280 yards (260 m) long and 140 ft (43 m) above the valley floor. It was built in 1966 by Reed & Mallik and opened to motorway traffic in October 1971.
Birch Services is a motorway service station located on the M62 motorway between Junction 18 and Junction 19 Heywood, close to Rochdale and Bury.There are two sides to the service station, the Eastbound services being quite old and the Westbound services being more modern.
Before the M62 was built, the A62 was the main trans-Pennine road between Oldham and Huddersfield. The M62 is numbered after the A62 and now takes most of the long-distance traffic between Manchester and Leeds (2023 Average daily traffic figures: M62: 110,000 [2] A62: 5,885 [3].)
The A627(M) is a motorway that runs between Chadderton and Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England. It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long and connects the two towns to the M62 . It opened in 1972.