The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 and the A14 in Catthorpe near Rugby in central England. It passes Coventry, Bedworth and Nuneaton, Birmingham, Walsall, Stafford, Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent. After the latter two cities it passes through Cumbria with some parts very close to the edge of the Lake District with a short stretch within the national park boundaries. The motorway has major junctions with the M55 at Junction 32, north of Preston ending just before Blackpool.
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The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 and the A14 in Catthorpe near Rugby in central England. It passes Coventry, Bedworth and Nuneaton, Birmingham, Walsall, Stafford, Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent. The M6 then heads north past Wigan, Preston and Lancaster. After the latter two cities it passes through Cumbria with some parts very close to the edge of the Lake District with a short stretch within the national park boundaries. It then passes Carlisle on its way to Gretna, before the motorway becomes the A74 a few hundred metres short of the Scottish border. The motorway has major junctions with the M55 at Junction 32, north of Preston ending just before Blackpool, the M65 at Junction 29, south of Preston, towards Blackburn and then Burnley. It is also part of the east−west route between the Midlands and the east-coast ports. As of 2020, the entire road network combined forms the longest continuous motorway in the United Kingdom and one of the busiest. Its busiest sections are J4-10a at Birmingham and J16-19 in Cheshire as this forms the main route from the EastWest Midlands and London to Manchester and Liverpool, These sections are now Smart Motorway.
Junction 6 in Birmingham is widely known as Spaghetti 6 because of its complexity and round and curvy design. The highest point on any motorway is 1,036ft above sea level in Shap Fell where a split-level road runs between the two carriageways without a link to motorway. The section between the M6 Toll and the M42 forms part of E-road E 24 and the section from the M4 to E-05 is E 05. The full route was completed between the junction with theM1 motorway at Rugby and the. A38 road several miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, including Bromford Viuct between Gravelly Hill and Castle Bromwich and Tebay, in 2010. The first section of motorway and the first motorway to be built in the country was the Preston By-pass. It was built by Tarmac Construction and opened by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 5 December 1958. In January 1959 the Preston by-pass was closed because of rapid surface deterioration over a stretch of 100 yards due to water freezing and then thawing.
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