M18 motorway

M18 motorway
Road of the United Kingdom
Length	26.5 miles (42.6 km)
Direction	South - North
Start	Thurcroft
Primary destinations	Rotherham Doncaster
End	Rawcliffe
Construction dates	1967 - 1979
Motorways joined	M1 motorway A1(M) motorway M180 motorway M62 motorway
Euroroute(s)	E 13

The M18 northbound during the Winter 2005-2006 roadworks

The M18 is a motorway in Yorkshire, England. It runs from Rotherham to Goole and is approximately 26 miles (42 km) long. A section of the road forms part of the unsigned Euroroute E13.

Route

The M18 runs in a north east/south west direction from junction 32 of the M1 motorway to junction 35 of the M62 motorway. It passes east of Rotherham, southeast of Doncaster and Armthorpe, and west of Thorne. It meets the A1(M) at junction 2 (A1(M) junction 35)--known as the Wadworth Interchange--and the M180 motorway at junction 5.

Much of the M18 is a two lane dual carriageway, and carries relatively low volumes of traffic. However, the section linking the M1 and A1(M) is much busier and has three lanes in each direction. It then passes over the impressive Wadworth Viaduct. To the north it then crosses the East Coast Main Line, and a large colliery can be seen to the south at Rossington.

History

• Junction 1 to Junction 2 opened in 1967
• Junction 5 to Junction 6 opened in 1972
• Junction 6 to Junction 7 opened in 1975
• Junction 4 to Junction 5 opened in 1977
• Junction 2 to Junction 4 opened in 1979

The M18 was originally to be part of the M1, but it was decided to route the M1 towards Leeds instead of Doncaster, and the routing of what would have been the M1 east of Sheffield became the M18.^[1]

Junctions

Data^[2] from driver location signs are used to provide distance and carriageway identifier information. The location sequence is a continuation of the M1 location sequence.

See also

• List of motorways in the United Kingdom

References

1. ^ http://www.iht.org/motorway/m1cricdonc.htm
2. ^ Traffic England Live Traffic Condiiton Map Highways Agency - Locations extracted from Traffic Camera Popup identifier text

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: M18 motorway

• CBRD Motorway Database - M18
• Hotels and restaurants along the motorway.
• Motorway Archive - M1 to A1(M)
• Motorway Archive - A1(M) to M62

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