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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 ...
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.
In the 1970s, he transferred to Greater Manchester Police. [1] On 14 September 1989, Codling, aged 49, together with Sergeant James Bowden, 45, stopped at Birch motorway services on the M62, looking for a white van.
A ring road of Manchester numbered clockwise from Stockport. Greater Manchester: 1998 180,501 36 58 M602: A west-east motorway linking the M62 to Salford. 1971 73,292 4.0 6.4 M606: A spur from the M62 to Bradford. West Yorkshire: 1972 77,277 3.0 4.8 M61: A north-south motorway linking Preston to Manchester. Greater Manchester, Lancashire: 1969 ...
However, the farm was actually owned by Yorkshire Water at the time the M62 was built. [12] Sally Boazman, BBC Radio 2's traffic reporter and CB radio users nicknamed it the Little House on the Prairie. It is separated from the motorway by crash barriers and a fence to keep livestock in and prevent out-of-control vehicles crashing onto the ...
Manchester is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 18,333 at the 2020 census. [4] History. Manchester in 1911.
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.
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 ...