Newhouse Junction

This article is about M8 Junction 6, with the A73.
For the junction on the A78, at the southern end of the Irvine bypass, with the A737 and B7080, see Newhouse Interchange.

The junction in 1974, as it was when the motorway was first built

Newhouse Junction is junction 6 of the M8, located at the point where it crosses the A73. It was newly built with the Motorway in the late 1960s, effectively replacing the old roundabout, which survives, a short distance to the south on the old A8. The junction is a large roundabout interchange set below the motorway, and was enlarged in 2016 when additional carriageways were built on either side of the M8 to provide east facing slips for the nearby Chapelhall Junction which was completely rebuilt when the A8 was upgraded to motorway. Prior to this, the motorway had terminated at this junction, with the all-purpose A8 continuing west. The new design means that the west facing slips still connect to the A8, with the parallel carriageways located on either side of the motorway. These lead to the new Chapelhall Junction, where traffic can access the western M8, movements which are not possible at the Newhouse Junction.

Routes

Route	To	Notes
M8	Edinburgh (M8)
M8	Glasgow, Carlisle (M74)	access from local roads via A8
A8	Glasgow, Carlisle (M74), Eurocentral, Chapelhall
A8	Glasgow (M8)
A73	Airdrie, Cumbernauld
A73	Lanark, Wishaw (A722), Motherwell (A723), Whitburn (B7066)