Old motorway pictures...

Old motorway pictures...

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ruggedscotty

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5,794 posts

216 months

Tuesday 21st June 2022
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The M6 crossing the M1 before it was even the M6



M1 being opened as it was extended past Hendon



M5 M50 junction



just before it opened... this curve caught a lot of people out so it did.....













Edited by ruggedscotty on Tuesday 21st June 20:28


Edited by ruggedscotty on Tuesday 21st June 20:29

ruggedscotty

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5,794 posts

216 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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m6 opening day thelwell viaduct....

stogbandard

391 posts

57 months

Sunday 26th June 2022
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Those lights on the M1 with the massive arms. Did they nick them from greyhound stadiums?

Chromegrill

1,100 posts

93 months

Monday 27th June 2022
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And the old style crash barriers with periodic gaps to allow traffic to switch carriageway during contraflow roadworks - little chance of that in the days of solid concrete barriers, though must be a lot safer.