M6 Lancaster Bypass Junction 34
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M6 Lancaster Bypass Junction 34
I have come across 3 different histories for why junction 34 of the M6 onto the A683 just east of Lancaster was built, it being one of the most dangerous junctions on the motorway system:-
1. As an access for emergancy vehicles.
2. As a works unit junction for a nearby Power Station (since demolised)
3. As a temperary junction, a perment junction being built about 2 miles north near Slyne.
Can anybody shed any light on these?
1. As an access for emergancy vehicles.
2. As a works unit junction for a nearby Power Station (since demolised)
3. As a temperary junction, a perment junction being built about 2 miles north near Slyne.
Can anybody shed any light on these?
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The first is the one I've heard most frequently, and so to quote CBRD
But, of course, I'm not saying that is exactly what happened.When this section of the M6 was built and opened, there was a junction at either end of the Lancaster Bypass to access the town, but these were 11 miles apart and each missed the town itself by about 6 miles. Lancashire County Council was worried that emergency vehicles would be unable to reach the M6 quickly enough because of the long round trip involved, and paid for a set of gated access roads from the A683 to be built for emergency services to use. Because these were "works access" points, they were designed well below standards. When it became clear that Lancaster needed a junction nearer the town centre, the emergency access point was signed as a full junction, the gates removed, and junction 34 as we know it came into being.
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Re: M6 Lancaster Bypass Junction 34
This is extremely likely - the access does appear to have been in existence when the bypass opened - therefore this is possible.ian001 wrote:1. As an access for emergancy vehicles.
Don't know about this one.2. As a works unit junction for a nearby Power Station (since demolised)
Quite possibly. There is mention in the Lancashire Archives of a Morecambe Link from the bypass - which your description sounds very similar to.3. As a temperary junction, a perment junction being built about 2 miles north near Slyne.
This first turns up as an all-purpose route in the 1940s, and still gets mentioned in NWRCU documentation in the 1970s, though it never seems to make it near to being built.
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Re: M6 Lancaster Bypass Junction 34
There's a nucelar plant at the docks at Heysham..... that's probably the nearby one that's talked about....Steven wrote:ian001 wrote:Don't know about this one.2. As a works unit junction for a nearby Power Station (since demolised)
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Re: M6 Lancaster Bypass Junction 34
There is a nuclear power station at Heysham about 6 miles away however there was one which was dimolished lively in the 1970's just west of the junction roughly on thee site of the presentb Holiday Innc2R wrote:Steven wrote:There's a nucelar plant at the docks at Heysham..... that's probably the nearby one that's talked about....ian001 wrote: Don't know about this one.
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When they built the new A689 to Heysham the terminal roundabout on the A589 points the way to the projected extension. My scribbling had it running to the north of Slyne then a choice of a junction either north or south of the Lune.
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On my map that's the A683. Either way it's out of zone being west of the A6.
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