M62 motorway

The **M62** is a motorway in Northern England. It connects Liverpool and Manchester with Leeds and Hull. It is about  long. Around seven miles of the motorway is shared with the M60.

## Junctions

|colspan="5"|**M62 motorway junctions**||||||||
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|mile|km|Westbound exits (B Carriageway)|Junction|Eastbound exits (A Carriageway)|||||
|||_No access (on-slip only)_|rowspan=2||Knotty Ash, Childwall, Broadgreen ,  <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5080**</span> _Non-motorway traffic_||||
|||_End of motorway Road continues as_ <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5080**</span> _towards Liverpool_|_Start of motorway_||||||
|||Knotty Ash, Huyton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5080**</span>|J5|Huyton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5080**</span>|||||
|7.9|12.7|Liverpool (S) &  <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5300**</span>, Huyton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A5080**</span> Southport <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M57**</span>|J6|Prescot <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M57**</span>, Runcorn, <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M56**</span> <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A5300**</span>|||||
|10.2|16.5|Widnes <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A557**</span>, Prescot <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A57**</span>, St. Helens <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A570**</span>|J7|St. Helens <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A570**</span>, Warrington <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A57**</span>, Widnes <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A557**</span>|||||
|||style=background:skyblue|_Entering Merseyside_||style=background:skyblue|_Entering Cheshire_|||
|14.5|23.3|Warrington (West) <span style="color:black; background:white">**(A574)**</span> _Burtonwood services_|J8 _Services_|Warrington (West) <span style="color:black; background:white">**(A574)**</span> _Burtonwood services_|||||
|rowspan=2|16.6|rowspan=2|26.7|rowspan=2|Warrington, Newton <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A49**</span>|rowspan=2|J9|Warrington (Central), Newton <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A49**</span>|
|_Start of variable speed limit_|||||||||
|18.1|29.1|Birmingham, Chester <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M56)**</span> <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M6(S)**</span> Preston <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M6(N)**</span>|J10|Preston <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M6(N)**</span> Birmingham, Manchester (S) &  <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M6(S)**</span>|||||
|rowspan=2|20.7|rowspan=2|33.4|rowspan=2|Warrington (East), Birchwood <span style="color:black; background:white">**A574**</span>|rowspan=2|J11|Warrington (East), Birchwood <span style="color:black; background:white">**A574**</span>|
|_End of variable speed limit_|||||||||
|||style=background:skyblue|_Entering Cheshire_||style=background:skyblue|_Entering Greater Manchester_|||
|rowspan=2|26.9|rowspan=2|43.3|_End of variable speed limit_|rowspan="2"  J12|Manchester  <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M60(S&E)**</span> Manchester City Centre, Salford <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M602**</span>|||
|_Start of motorway_|_Start of variable speed limit_||||||||
|||colspan="3"  _Concurrency with_ <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M60**</span>|||||||
|35.1|56.5|Ring Road (E & S), Manchester (E & C), Manchester  <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M60(E)**</span> Blackburn, Bury <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M66**</span>|J18|_Start of motorway_|||||
|37.8|60.9|_Birch services_|_Services_|_Birch services_|||||
|40.1|64.5|Middleton, Heywood <span style="color:black; background:white">**A6046**</span>|J19|Middleton, Heywood <span style="color:black; background:white">**A6046**</span>|||||
|rowspan=2|42.5|rowspan=2|68.4|_Start of variable speed limit_|rowspan=2|J20|Rochdale, Oldham <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**A627(M)**</span>||
|Rochdale, Oldham <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**A627(M)**</span>|_End of variable speed limit_||||||||
|43.7|70.3|Milnrow, Shaw <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**(A640)**</span>|J21|Milnrow, Shaw <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**(A640)**</span>|||||
|||colspan=3|_Rakewood Viaduct_||||||
|||style=background:skyblue|_Entering Greater Manchester_||style=background:skyblue|_Entering West Yorkshire_|||
|46.8|75.4|Saddleworth <span style="color:black; background:white">**A672**</span>|J22|Ripponden, Saddleworth <span style="color:black; background:white">**A672**</span>, Sowerby Bridge <span style="color:black; background:white">**(A58)**</span>|||||
|54.0|86.9|_No access (on-slip only)_|J23|Huddersfield (West) <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A640**</span>|||||
|55.5|89.4|Huddersfield, Halifax <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A629**</span>|J24|Huddersfield, Halifax <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A629**</span>|||||
|rowspan=2|59.1|rowspan=2|95.2|_End of variable speed limit_|rowspan=2|J25|Brighouse, Dewsbury <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A644**</span>||
|Huddersfield <span style="color:black; background:white">**(A62)**</span>, Brighouse <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A644**</span>|_Start of variable speed limit_||||||||
|60.6|97.7|_Hartshead Moor services_|_Services_|_Hartshead Moor services_|||||
|62.5|100.7|Halifax <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A58**</span> Bradford <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M606**</span>|J26|Cleckheaton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A638**</span> Bradford, Leeds Bradford  <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M606**</span>|||||
|66.5|107.1|Batley <span style="color:black; background:white">**A62**</span>|J27|Batley <span style="color:black; background:white">**A62**</span> Leeds <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M621**</span>|||||
|69.7|112.2|Leeds, Leeds/Bradford , Dewsbury <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A653**</span>|J28|Dewsbury <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A653**</span>|||||
|72.3|116.5|The SOUTH <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M1(S)**</span> Leeds <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M621)**</span> <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M1(N)**</span>|J29|The NORTH, Leeds <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M1(N)**</span> The SOUTH, Wakefield <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M1(S)**</span>|||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||_Start of variable speed limit_|rowspan=2|J30|Rothwell, Wakefield <span style="color:black; background:white">**A642**</span>||
|Wakefield, Rothwell <span style="color:black; background:white">**A642**</span>|_End of variable speed limit_||||||||
|77.7|125.2|Normanton, Castleford <span style="color:black; background:white">**A655**</span>|J31|Castleford, Normanton <span style="color:black; background:white">**A655**</span>|||||
|80.5|129.7|Pontefract, Castleford <span style="color:black; background:white">**A639**</span>|J32|Pontefract, Castleford <span style="color:black; background:white">**A639**</span>|||||
|||The NORTH, Wetherby <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**A1(M)**</span>|J32A|The NORTH, The SOUTH <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**A1(M)**</span>|||||
|84.7|136.4|The SOUTH <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A1**</span>, Pontefract <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A645**</span> _Ferrybridge services_|J33 _Services_|Ferrybridge <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A162**</span> _Ferrybridge services_|||||
|||style=background:skyblue|_Entering West Yorkshire_||style=background:skyblue|_Entering North Yorkshire_|||
|||Selby, Doncaster <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A19**</span>|J34|Selby, Doncaster <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A19**</span>|||||
|||style=background:skyblue|_Entering North Yorkshire_||style=background:skyblue|_Entering East Riding of Yorkshire_|||
|||The SOUTH, Doncaster <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M18**</span>, Scunthorpe, Humberside , Doncaster Sheffield  <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M180)**</span>|J35|The SOUTH <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**M18**</span>, Scunthorpe, Humberside , Doncaster Sheffield  <span style="color:white; background:#0079C1">**(M180)**</span>|||||
|||Goole <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A614**</span>|J36|Goole <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A614**</span>|||||
|||colspan=3|_Ouse Bridge_||||||
|||Howden <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A614**</span>, Selby <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**(A63)**</span>|J37|Bridlington, York, Howden <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A614**</span>|||||
|||_Start of motorway_|rowspan=2|J38|North Cave, Gilberdyke||||
|||Newport <span style="color:black; background:white">**B1230**</span> _Non-motorway traffic_|_End of motorway Road continues as_ <span style="color:#FFD200; background:#00703C">**A63**</span> _towards Hull_ ==Major incidents== In 1974, the Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a coach, killing 12 people. In 2001, a car veered off the road onto a railway track, causing a train crash which killed 10 people. ==Coordinates== ==References==||||||

## Infobox (road)

- **country**: GBR
- **type**: M
- **route**: 62
- **alternate name**: Lancashire-Yorkshire Motorway
- **map**: M62 motorway (Great Britain) map.svg
- **photo**: M62 J22 from Pennine Way.JPG
- **photo notes**: Looking east at junction 22, the highest point on the English motorway network, from the Pennine Way
- **maint**:
Highways England
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Liverpool City Council
- **length mi**: 107
- **length notes**: are part of the M60 motorway
- **history**: Opened: 1960
Completed: 1976
- **direction a**: West
- **terminus a**: Knotty Ash
- **junction**:
J6 → M57 motorway

J10 → M6 motorway

/
J12 → M60 motorway/M602 motorway

/
J18 → M60 motorway/M66 motorway

J20 → A627(M) motorway

J26 → M606 motorway

J27 → M621 motorway

J29 → M1 motorway

J32a → A1(M) motorway

J35 → M18 motorway
- **direction b**: East
- **terminus b**: North Cave
- **e-road**: and
- **counties**: Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire
- **destinations**: Liverpool
Huyton
Warrington
Manchester
Oldham
Rochdale
Huddersfield
Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax
Bradford
Leeds
Wakefield
Pontefract
Goole
- **previous type**: M
- **previous route**: 61
- **next type**: M
- **next route**: 65