12 Facts About M62 motorway

The M62 motorway absorbed the northern end of the Stretford-Eccles bypass, which was built between 1957 and 1960.

Route of the Lancashire-Yorkshire M62 motorway was considered inadequate as it failed to cater for several industrial towns in Yorkshire.

The M62 was intended to terminate at Liverpool's Inner Motorway, which was not built.

Difficulties arose building the Liverpool urban M62 motorway resulting in delays, with the section between Tarbock and Liverpool the last to be completed in 1976.

The M62 motorway was constructed only as far as the Queens Drive inner ring road, which is junction 4.

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Between Eccles and Pole Moor, 67 M62 motorway crossings were required, including seven viaducts and eight junctions.

Between Worsley and Milnrow, some underlying coal seams were still actively worked when the M62 motorway was constructed and allowances had to be made to counteract possible future subsidence.

The M62 motorway overbridge has a reinforced concrete multi-cellular deck of four spans.

The M62 motorway provides a direct link between three of the five largest metro areas in England, and is the most practical route for HGVs and other commercial traffic between Manchester and Leeds.

Western end of the M62 motorway is at Queen's Drive, on Liverpool's middle ring road from where it runs eastward to the outer ring road, the M57.

East of Leeds, the M62 motorway serves Wakefield at junction 30 and crosses by the River Calder.

At junction 35, the M62 motorway meets with the northern terminus of the M18 at a triangle interchange.