Terminal roundabout, view east, 12 December 1997
Terminal roundabout, view east (see all photos of the same view)
The wide gap between the two carriageways at the end of the motorway is intended to allow the motorway to be extended west across the top of the terminal roundabout. This was never carried out.
Date
12 December 1997
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
East
Structures visible
Structure 4/4a/4c (M6 interchange bridges)
Structure 5 (A49 underbridge)
Roads visible
A49 Wigan Road
What's new
Farewell GLC lights
Why am I all nostalgic about some street lights being replaced?
Silver bullet
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Skid Risk, Accident, Fog
For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.
Have you seen...
Sir James Drake
County Surveyor and Bridgemaster for Lancashire in the 1950s and 60s, Drake was instrumental in the motorway revolution.
