| M61 motorway | |
Road of the United Kingdom |
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| Length | 20 miles (32.2 km) |
| Direction | Northwest - Southeast |
| Start | Worsley |
| Primary destinations | Manchester Leigh Bolton |
| End | Bamber Bridge |
| Construction dates | 1969 - 1970 |
| Motorways joined |   J1 → M60 motorway   J9 → M65 motorway  M6 motorway |
The M61 motorway is a motorway in north-west England. It runs from the M60 motorway north-west of Manchester, heading north-west past Bolton and Chorley to join the M6 just north of the junction between the M6 and M65 motorways to the south of Preston.
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Worsley Braided Interchange
Perhaps the most distinguishing section of the M61 is to be found at the southern end at the Worsley Braided Interchange between Junctions 1 and 3. This stretch of the road on the approach to the terminus with the M60 ring road is a collection of myriad sliproads and overpass tunnels providing free-flowing access to and from:
- The A580 (East Lancashire road).
- The motorway spur road to and from the A666.
- Both clockwise and anti-clockwise carriageways of the M60.
- Both northbound and southbound carriageways of the M61.
This complicated junction earns a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most traffic lanes side by side (17), spread across several parallel carriageways.[1]
Media
The M61 has one service station: Bolton West services (formerly known as Anderton, Adlington and Rivington), located between Junctions 6 and 8 (as Junction 7 was never built). This MSA was used in the filming of The Services, a pilot episode for the Farnworth-born comedian Peter Kay series That Peter Kay Thing, a spoof documentary of a day in the life of the MSA staff.
Junctions
Data[2] from driver location signs are used to provide distance information.
| M61 Motorway | |||
| km | Northbound exits | Junction | Southbound exits |
| The NORTH, Lancaster M6 | M6, J30 | Start of motorway | |
| 33.2 | Blackburn, Burnley, Preston (South) M65 | J9 | Blackburn, Burnley, Preston (South) M65 |
| 27.6 | Chorley, Whittle-le-Woods A674 (A6) | J8 | Chorley, Whittle-le-Woods A674 (A6) |
| Bolton West services | Services | Bolton West Services | |
| 15.4 | Horwich (A673) Chorley (A6) |
J6 | Bolton (West), Horwich (A673) |
| 11.2 | Westhoughton, Hindley, Wigan A58 | J5 | Westhoughton. Hindley, Wigan A58 |
| 8.2 | Atherton, Walkden, Farnworth A6 | J4 | Atherton, Walkden, Farnworth A6 |
| 4.5 | No access | J3 | Bolton (A666) |
| Bolton (A666) | J2 | Manchester (Central) (A580) | |
| Start of motorway | J1 | Oldham, Rochdale M60 (East) Leeds (M62) Salford, Sale M60 (South) Manchester Airport (M56) |
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See also
External links
- CBRD Motorway Database - M61
- Lancashire County Council - Historic Highways - M61
- The Motorway Archive - M61
References
- ^ British Roads Database www.cbrd.co.uk URL accessed February 18, 2008
•"The number's up for Britain's roads". Telegraph.co.uk (Telegraph Media Group Limited). October 2002. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2002/10/04/emfnum05.xml. Retrieved 2008-02-18. "The west side of Manchester is notoriously busy and holds the record for the widest section of motorway - an impressive 17 lanes where the M61 and M60 meet."
•Matthews, Peter (ed) (1992). The Guinness Book of Records 1993. Enfield: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 121. ISBN 0-85112-978-1. - ^ Driver Location Signs, Highway Agency Area 10 (map) - Highway Authority, 2009
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