The route was originally intended to replace the old A6, which it does along the northern section starting with the Preston Bypass.

However, a much closer approximation to the overall actual route of the M6 ( heading north from its southern terminus ) is provided by following the A45, A34, A50, A49, then the A6.

South of Preston, the A6 route is instead supplemented by the M61 as far as Manchester, with the M60 acting as a bypass around the city.

* Motorway 64 ( A64 ) is a section of the Attiki Odos which branches off the main A6 route.

* Motorway 65 ( A65 ) is a second auxiliary route that branches off the main A6 route.

The A6 meets a former route beside the new Westfield Derby, a former roundabout that was replaced with traffic lights with a multi-storey car park in the centre.

* Route A6 ( WMATA ), a bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

The A74 was the original route from Glasgow to Gretna, where it met the A6, which was a continuation of the route south to London.

It is anomalously numbered since west of Penrith it trespasses into numbering zone 5 ; this is because it originally terminated at the A6 in Penrith, but was extended further west in order to create one continuous east – west route.

The M6 opened in the late 1960s and early 1970s after which more traffic to the ports used a route from junction 1 of the M6 via the A427 road to Market Harborough followed by a short section of the A6 road to Kettering and then the A604 to Cambridge before joining the old A45 to the ports as above.

Roads in Northern Ireland are classified as either motorways ( shown by the letter M followed by a route number, e. g. M1 ), A-roads ( shown by the letter A followed by a route number, e. g. A6 ), B-roads ( shown by the letter B followed by a route number, e. g. B135 ) and other roads.

This was the main piece in the jigsaw of the Stoke-Derby route, and mirrored the plans for the original M64, even having three lanes in some sections-notably the section from Kegworth to the A6 junction near Derby.

The old A50 was the main route to London from Leicester, before it was replaced during the 19th century by what is now the A6.

At the roundabout with the A6 near Higham Ferrers, it starts the follow the former route of the A605.

The Crossroads lies on the old route of the A6 road, which now bypasses the village.

The name ` Stoneygate ' originates in Old English as " stone road ", and Ordnance Survey maps show the former route of an unnamed Roman road leading South-West from Stoneygate on the A6 towards Little Stretton, Medbourne and Corby.

Tourism and hospitality have always thrived ( being a convenient stop off point on the A6 for coaches and cars en route to the Lake District -- and just to the north is Levens Hall, famed for its topiary ).

The A1081 road in Hertfordshire, England broadly follows and replaces the former route of the A6 south of Luton in Bedfordshire.

However, since the construction of the M25 the A1081 is split between London Colney and the South Mimms services-the motorway using the route of the former A6 dual carriageway between these locations.

Rushden lies on the A6 mid-way between Bedford and Kettering.

The section between Cambridge and Kettering used to be the A604 apart from a short section near Kettering that used to be part of the A6.

For several years the traffic jam that occurred in 1980 over a long stretch of the French A6 Autoroute between Paris and Lyon was considered the world ’ s longest.

A Saxon cemetery was found two hundred years ago and the bumps and hollows between the A6 and the River Soar may be the remains of a Saxon village.

On Friday, August 12, 2011, the partnership between TSMC and Apple was announced and TSMC has begun trial production of the A5 ( dual core ) and the A6 chip for Apple's next-generation iPads and iPhones.

Adjacent to the mill are two deep fords which can be crossed by car with care, allowing a road connection between the A5 and A6 near Harpenden.

The valley floor hosts the A6 trunk road, which was the main road between London and Manchester in former times, and also the Cromford Canal and the Derwent Valley Line linking Derby and Matlock.

The second stage was the construction, from December 1964, of a 0. 6 mi ( 1 km ) long elevated highway of a motorway standard which ran between the A6 and A56 roads.

Force elements from RAF Brize Norton, RAF High Wycombe and RAF Sealand relocated to RAF Leeming in Yorkshire between Summer 2007 and Summer 2009 as part of the creation of the A6 Communications hub.

It borders Fallowfield, Longsight, Gorton, Burnage, Heaton Chapel and Reddish, and is approximately halfway between Stockport and Manchester city centre ( approximately away ) on the A6 road.

The main A6, Stockport Road, dates from 1724 when a turnpike was built between Manchester and Stockport.

St. Malachy's College is located in the Water Works electoral ward of north Belfast, between two main roads ( the A6 Antrim Road and the A52 Crumlin Road ), close to where they meet at Carlisle Circus.

The section between A2 / A9 and A1 / A6 was never built, although this would have formed a natural connection between A9 and A6.

The roads A1 to A6 radiate from London with A1 as the axial route of the country, running between London and Edinburgh.

While the railway workers have largely disappeared, at the beginning of the 21st century, there is renewed public interest in rail, and Derbyshire County Council, among others, is keen to reduce traffic congestion on the A6 and in the Peak National Park. When goods traffic finished between Matlock and Rowsley, the line was taken over by the Peak Rail preservation group, who are campaigning for the link to be restored to Buxton.

It occupies land to the west of the A6, between the ' Gates ' estate and the A46.

* In answer to a written parliamentary question in June 2006, it was revealed that the average daily flow of traffic over the Glenshane Pass between Dungiven and Maghera on the A6 was approximately 5, 500 in each direction.

Milford is a village in Derbyshire, England, on the River Derwent, between Duffield and Belper on the A6 trunk road.

Starting at the A6 in Oadby the road progresses clockwise, passing between Knighton and Wigston ( crossing the A5199 Welford Road ), then to the south of Aylestone ( crossing the A426 ), then turning north by Fosse Shopping Park.

There is also a motorway from Zagreb to Rijeka, the A6, as well as the A4 motorway from Zagreb to the northeast ( Hungarian border ) as well as a motorway from Zagreb to the northwest ( Slovenian border ), the A2.

The road infrastructure is good and the main highway connection is A4, connecting the Hungary border-crossing point in Goričan with Zagreb, as well as the coast of the Adriatic Sea via A1 / A6.

* In 2002, the body of James Hanratty, hanged in 1962 for the " A6 murder ", was exhumed and DNA samples from the body and members of his family were analysed.

The greasy spoon was also the mainstay of British lorry drivers who travelled the major truck roads such as the A1 and the A6 prior to the opening of the motorways, see also Transport café.

* C6 or A6 does not exist, since the aid climbing scale was developed as discrete scale that is not open ended.

Structure A6 was abandoned in A. D. 1050, and marks the final abandonment of the site.

The town was formerly at a crossroads for both road and rail ; however the A6 now bypasses the town to the east and the A14 which carries east-west traffic is to the south.

Plans for an A6 by-pass were approved by the Department for Transport during the 1980s and the road costing £ 9. 5m was opened in June 1992.

The Preston Bypass, the UK's first motorway section, should have been numbered A6 ( M ) under the scheme decided upon, but it was decided to keep the number M6 as had already been applied.

When the A1 was moved onto the Barnet Bypass in the 1950s, the A6 was cut back to the A1 / M25 junction.

When speed was important, some programmers converted sections of BASIC programs to 6502 assembly language and executed them from BASIC using the command ; at other times, when speed was too fast, programmers dropped back to BASIC, and polled various addresses in memory ( such as $ A6 for the C-64, or $ D0 for the C-128, denoting size of the keyboard queue ) before they could start executing again.

It is around 500 m long and replaced an A-road spur of the A6 that was built in the 1980s.

The A6 used to run through Harpenden, although the road numbering was changed to avoid congestion.

The A6 used to pass through the town, but was bypassed in the 1930s to the north.

New Mills was served by the Peak Forest Canal, three railway lines and the A6 trunk road.

This new weapon was the Meunier rifle, also known as the Fusil A6, which chambered a powerful 7 × 59mm rimless cartridge.