The Midlands

M17

M17 Castle Donington Bypass

Right on the edge of Leicestershire.

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M42

M42 Appleby Magna - Nottingham

Why does the M42 end in the middle of nowhere?

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M42 Lydiate Ash Link

M42 Appleby Magna - Nottingham

How the Catshill Orbital nearly came to be...

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M45

M45 Dunchurch Spur

Motorway driving, 1959-style.

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M50

M50 Ross Spur

One very early motorway that's seemingly always empty. It's also got a rather fantastic T-junction.

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M64

M64 Stoke - Derby Motorway

How traffic between Lancashire and London should have avoided the West Midlands conurbation...

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M96

M96 Fire Service College Motorway

Rather than being somewhere near Aberdeen, this often-seen motorway is somewhere much further south...

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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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A5(M)

A5(M) Wellington Bypass

Shropshire's ethereal bypass

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A38(M)

A38(M) Aston Expressway

Birmingham's Aston Expressway. Seven lanes of concrete with no central barrier...

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A46(M)

A46(M) Leicester Spur

The quick way into Leicester. Well, if you're living in the 1960s, anyway!

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A50

A50 London - Yorkshire Motorway

There's a much, much more famous number for this motorway...

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A446(M)

A423(M) Maidenhead Bypass

The Northern Relief Road - now with added catchy title...

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A454

A454 The Keyway

A planned motorway, a clerical error and a little twist...

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Bilston Link

Bilston Link Motorway

Wolverhampton's unbuilt motorway that had hundreds of false starts!

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Coventry North-South M'way

Coventry North-South Motorway

Coventry's attempts to join the Urban Motorway Club nearly came off...

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Northern & Western Motorway

Northern and Western Motorway

Back in 1923, motorways were almost unheard of. We look at a motorway that might just have changed everything...

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Strensham - Solihull Motorway

Strensham - Solihull Motorway

Taking the short-cut between the M50 and M42.

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Western Orbital

Western Orbital

When is an orbital not an orbital? When it goes around Wolverhampton! That's a rubbish punchline...

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