M62 motorway
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The M62 is a 107-mile-long west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield; 7 miles of the route is shared with the M6
Looking east at junction 22, the highest point on the English motorway network, from the Pennine Way, 2010
Construction starting in Milnrow, July 1968
M62 Summit sign in July 2017, located at 53°37′47″N 2°01′06″W / 53.6298°N 2.0184°W / 53.6298; -2.0184 (Summit of M62)
Stott Hall Farm, viewed from moorland above westbound carriageway in August 2009
M62 coach bombing
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On 4 February 1974, a 25-pound bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in a coach on the M62 motorway in northern England exploded, killing twelve people and injuring thirty-eight others
M62 motorway
…Yorkshire, and has several sections prone to traffic congestion, in particular, between Leeds and Huddersfield and the M60 section around Eccles. The M62 coach bombing of 1974 and the Great Heck rail crash of 2001 are the largest incidents to have occurred on the motorway. Stott Hall Farm, situated between the…
Aftermath of the M62 coach bombing
Plaque unveiled in Oldham in 2010 in memory of the victims of the M62 coach bombing
Memorial plaque at Hartshead Moor service station