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Carnforth Interchange

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Carnforth Interchange
Location Map ( geo)
M6 Motorway, near Carnforth - Geograph - 13994.jpg
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Location
Carnforth
County
Lancashire
Highway Authority
National Highways • Lancashire
Junction Type
Roundabout Interchange
Roads Joined
M6, A6070, B6601
Junctions related to the A6070
The temporary bend on the M6 Lancaster Bypass in 1965
By 1972, the junction had been constructed

Junction 35 of the M6 is a motorway junction serving Carnforth, Lancashire.

When the M6 Lancaster bypass was first opened in 1960, there was nothing here but a "temporary bend", a bridge over the Lancaster Canal (with two separate decks, one for each carriageway), and a change in width of the central reservation. (To the south it was wide enough to allow a third lane to be added to each carriageway, to the north-west not). Accidents on the bend caused the "sharp bend ahead" sign to be trialled here.

A roundabout interchange was created here when the mainline was extended north, opening in 1970. The former north end of the bypass became a spur. A new canal bridge was built for the southbound carriageway of the spur, leaving the former southbound deck unused. A footbridge over the M6 mainline a short distance to the south was demolished as it was incompatible with the new slip roads.

In 1985, legislation was enacted to allow the construction of single carriageway road (known as the Carnforth Link), with motorway status. This was opened in 1986 and connected the east side of the roundabout to the nearby B6254, to enable quarry traffic to bypass Carnforth village. This and the old north-westerly spur were given the number A601(M), which is odd as the A601 is quite elsewhere.

In 2020, the Carnforth Link and circulatory carriageway of the roundabout was downgraded to become the non primary B6601, and in 2023 the A601(M) to the north was renumbered A6070.

One study recommended slip roads be provided to the A6070 Burton Road, instead of salvaging the remains of the bypass.


Routes

Route To Notes

M6

The North, Kendal, Barrow (A6)

M6

The South, Lancaster, Preston, Blackpool

A6070

Morecambe, Carnforth, Milnthorpe, Services formerly M6

A601(M)

Morecambe, Carnforth, Milnthorpe, Services formerly M6

B6601

Kirkby Lonsdale, Over Kellet Quarries white signs, A601(M) number not signed . Formerly A601(M)

Furness
Link

Barrow-in-Furness, Morecambe, Carnforth, Milnthorpe along A601(M)

M6

Morecambe, Carnforth, Milnthorpe, Services now A601(M)

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Carnforth Interchange
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M6 Motorway, near Carnforth - Geograph - 13994.jpgLooking north towards M6 J32.jpg
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