M1 Staples Corner - Fiveways

Name
Staples Corner Fiveways
Opened
Route
Start point
Junction number at start: 1
Staples Corner
End point
Junction number at end: 2
Fiveways

Only the northbound carriageway was open to traffic until the North Circular Road flyover at Staples Corner was completed. The southbound carriageway opened in 1977.

Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.

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