The M60 is 36. 1 miles long and was renamed the M60 in 2000, with the M62 and M63 being amalgamated into the new route.

The M60 was developed by connecting and consolidating the existing motorway sections of the M63, M62, and an extended M66.

The M62 was intended to terminate upon the Inner Motorway, but due to the Inner Motorway not being constructed, the M62 link was not constructed either.

Originally, the section of the M62 west of Manchester was intended to be a separate motorway linking Liverpool with Salford, but a continuous motorway between Leeds and Liverpool was deemed to be more feasible, known as the M52.

The first part of the M62 to be built was the Stretford-Eccles Bypass, which now covers junctions 7 to 13 of the M60.

M62 J22, the highest point on the motorway as seen from the Pennine WayThe first section of the Yorkshire section of the motorway was completed in 1970, between the county boundary at Windy Hill and Outlane.

In 1967, at the time of the first public inquiry there were discussions regarding an extension of the motorway across the Peak District National Park It was to provide a second motorway link across the Pennines to the south of the planned M62 and avoid the Snake and Woodhead passes, which are often closed in snowy weather.

On 28 February 2001, a vehicle crashed off the M62 down an embankment on to a railway track, where it was struck by a passenger train heading to London.

Kirklees was the site of a Cistercian Priory north of Mirfield, in what is now West Yorkshire, and close to the current site of the M62 motorway.

Before the M62 opened, the single carriageway A63 was Hull's main route to the South of England, causing many bottlenecks.

The section from junction 38 of the M62 ( its terminus ) to the A1034 junction near South Cave was single carriageway before the M62 opened in May 1976.

The section was constructed as the dualling of the Caves Bypass and opened when the last eastern section of the M62 opened, completing the dual carriageway link to the outskirts of Hull.

Prior to the building of the M62, the A62 was the main trans-Pennine road between Oldham and Huddersfield.

It was very heavily used by vehicles travelling between the north and south banks of the Humber before the opening of the M62 motorway in the mid-1970s and the Humber Bridge in 1981.

The estate was created in its present location in proximity to the M6, M62 and M56 motorway networks.

At the southern end of the M57 where it meets the M62 ( Tarbock Island ) and also the A5300 southern extension, a £ 38 million improvement scheme to create a free-flow link with the M62 eastbound was completed on November 14, 2008.

At the same junction a free-flow link from the M62 Westbound to the M57 northbound was completed on December 12.

In 1998 it was decided to rename various sections of motorway ( parts of the M62 and M66 and the whole of the M63 ) around Manchester to the M60 to form the Manchester Outer Ring Road.

The BMW M62 is a V8 DOHC piston engine which replaced the M60 and was produced from 1994-2005.

Two examples on the UK road network where the carriageways are several hundred yards / metres apart, are on a section of the M6 between Shap and Tebay, which allows a local road to run between them, and on the M62 where the highest section through the Pennines famously splits wide enough for a farm in the central reservation.

Prior to the bridge opening, commuters would go from one bank to the other either by using the ferry that ran between Hull and New Holland, Lincolnshire or driving via the M62, M18 and M180 motorways, crossing the River Ouse near Goole ( connected to the Humber ) in the process.

Liverpool city centre is to the west via the M62 motorway.

The M62 motorway is a west – east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester and Leeds.

An alternative route eastwards from the Selby bypass, to the M62, is the A1041 via Camblesforth, then the A645 past Drax power station.

Access to the M62 is via junction 37 to the west, along Boothferry Road ( A614 ).

The M62 motorway starts at the end of Broadgreen Road out of the city, and is the east gateway into the city via Edge Lane Drive.

Being centrally located within the UK the town is served by three major motorway networks, the M62 linking Manchester to Hull ( west to east ), the M1 linking Leeds to London ( North to South ), and the North of England via a new link between the M62 and the A1 ( M ) at nearby Ferrybridge.

By road it is accessed via the St. Helens Linkway to M62 westbound Junction 7 at Rainhill.

By road it is accessed via the St. Helens Linkway to M62 eastbound Junction 7 at Rainhill and by rail, the Manchester Airport train service serves St. Helens Junction station.

Transport to and from Hessle is convenient, with good access to main roads such as the A15, A63 & M62 ( via the A63 ).

It is easily accessible by road from junction 21 of the M62 motorway ( via the A640 and B6225 roads ) and has three pay and display car parks.

The origins of the M62 date back to the 1930s, where the need for a route between Lancashire and Yorkshire had been agreed after discussion by the respective highway authorities of the counties.

It is long and provides part of the route between the M62 and M60 motorways and the M65, with the rest being provided by the A56.

The Rainford By-Pass is a section of the A570, between the East Lancashire Road and the M58 and is part of the transport route from Southport, in Sefton, through West Lancashire, through St Helens to the M62 Junction 7 at Rainhill.

A proposed extension to the M66 motorway created a new threat to the canal in 1985, but Greater Manchester Council began to look at ways to remove blockages in the following year, particularly the M62 embankment which blocked the route at Failsworth.

The track has been lifted and some of the southern part of the route is occupied by Watkinson Way, a road providing an easterly bypass for Widnes and connecting the Silver Jubilee Bridge with the M62 motorway.

Sally's emotions and nerves crumble as she takes Rosie on a wild drive across the M62 en route to a boarding school but loses control of the car, nearly killing them both.

However, at the same time, the M62 was being extended north and east of Worsley, around the north of Manchester, and on to Yorkshire, to form part of the Trans-Pennine Motorway route.

The cobbled packhorse trail which runs through the village, down Old Lane from Midgley, crossing the river and on up Halifax Lane to Warley, was once the equivalent of the modern day M62, providing a major goods route through the Pennines when the main mode of transport was packhorses.

Two separate motorways were planned, with the M52 running from Liverpool into Salford ; the other, the M62, would link Pole Moor with the Stretford-Eccles Bypass.

The 1996 528i introduced a new M52 in-line six that it shared with the E36 328i, the 540i a 4. 4-litre M62 V8 shared with the E38 740i.