M6 motorway

M6
Route information
Part of E05 and E24
Maintained by Highways England
Length:	232.2 mi (373.7 km)
History:	Opened in 1958, completed in 2008
Major junctions
South end:	Catthorpe
	M1 motorway J2 → M69 motorway J3a → M6 Toll J4 → M42 motorway J4a → M42 motorway J6 → A38(M) motorway M5 motorway J10a → M54 motorway J11a → M6 Toll J20 → M56 motorway J21a → M62 motorway J26 → M58 motorway J29 → M65 motorway J30 → M61 motorway J32 → M55 motorway J35 → A601(M) motorway J45 → A74(M) motorway
North end:	Gretna
Location
Primary destinations:	Leicester Northampton Rugby Coventry Nuneaton Birmingham Walsall Wolverhampton Cannock Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Newcastle-under-Lyme Crewe Warrington Wigan Manchester Liverpool Preston Lancaster Kendal Penrith Carlisle Gretna
Road network
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The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction (J45). Here, just short of the Scottish border it becomes the A74(M) which continues to Glasgow as the M74.

As of 2016, the M6, as well as combining with the length of the A14 from Brampton from junction with A1(M), the A74(M) and M74 to the junction with the M8 in Glasgow, forms the longest non-stop motorway in the United Kingdom and one of the busiest. It incorporated the Preston By-pass, the first length of motorway opened in the UK and forms part of a motorway "Backbone of Britain", running north−south between London and Glasgow via the industrial North of England. It is also part of the east−west route between the Midlands and the east-coast ports. The section from the M1 to the M6 Toll split near Birmingham forms part of the unsigned E-road E 24 and the section from the M6 Toll and the M42 forms part of E 05.

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