North East England

M19

M19 Lancashire - Yorkshire Motorway

How the M1 and A1 should have been linked.

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M65

M65 Gildersome - Leeds Motorway

Nothing to do with Preston, Blackburn or any other Lancashire town. This is Yorkshire's first attempt...

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M180

M180 North Lincolnshire Motorway

Is this the most boring motorway in Great Britain?

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M181

M181 Scunthorpe Spur

The tiny spur with the bouncy ride.

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M606

M606 Bradford South Radial Motorway

The half-built motorway that ended at a mini-roundabout.

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M621

M621 Leeds South West Urban Motorway

In and out of Leeds, without stopping!

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A1(M)

A1(M) Central Motorway East

The original flavour of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Central Motorway East

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A1(M)

A1(M) London - Tyneside Motorway

Just why is the A1(M) in lots of pieces?

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A18(M)

A18(M) Tudworth Link

Yorkshire's abandoned motorway

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A58(M)

A58(M) Leeds Inner Ring Road

The original, but is it the best? Britain's first Urban Motorway.

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A61(M)

A61(M) Sheffield Urban Motorway Link

How Sheffield could have been just like Manchester and Leeds!

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A64(M)

A64(M) Leeds Inner Ring Road

The most lopsided motorway in the country, that's pretty much twice as long in the one direction as the other!

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A66(M)

A66(M) Darlington Spur

Up in the wilds of northernmost Yorkshire is a little gem of a motorway...

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A167(M)

A167(M) Central Motorway

Newcastle-upon-Tyne's brilliant little motorway. It's kind of like a fairground ride - scary and exciting at the same time!

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A168(M)

A168(M) Dishforth Spur

One little blue sign, all alone. Should it be there, or should it go home?

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A194(M)

A194(M) Birtley - White Mare Pool

The amazing disappearing, reappearing motorway. Take a look before it goes "shazam" again!

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A195(M)

A195(M) Washington Spur

The first secretive motorway discovered, and eventually the Highways Agency "owned up"!

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A638(M)

A638(M) Bradford South Radial Motorway

Bradford's rarely-heard lost motorway

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A695(M)

A695 Shields Road Motorway

One of Tyneside's missing motorways that was nearly there!

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A1058(M)

A1058(M) Coast Road Motorway

Once planned as an essential part of Tyneside's motorway network, now just a teeny tiny stub of what might have been...

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A6127(M)

A6127(M) Central Motorway East

Newcastle-upon-Tyne's confused motorway.

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Central Motorway East Bypass

Central Motorway East Bypass

Tyneside's proposed motorway bypass of a motorway...

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Central Motorway West

Central Motorway West

Tyneside's "matching pair" motorway, the Central Motorway West

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Claremont Road Motorway

Claremont Road Motorway

Tyneside's very, very nearly motorway.

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Flockton Link

Flockton Link

Hudderfield to Barnsley, cutting a massive corner off...

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Friars Goose Crossing

Friars Goose Crossing

Crossing the River Tyne, the proper approach to Newcastle upon Tyne city centre from the south.

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Newcastle E-W Motorway

Newcastle East-West Underground Motorway

The completely underground motorway.

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Tyne Side Story

Tyne Side Story

How one small area of the country got the motorway bug in a big way, before it all went wrong...

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