M42 motorway

The **M42** is a motorway in the Midlands of England. It runs northeast from the M5 near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire to near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. It runs south of the West Midlands conurbation, going through Solihull and Birmingham Airport. Here, it crosses the M6 motorway. It then goes past Coleshill and then past Tamworth, before ending. At the end of the motorway, just south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, it becomes the A42.

The road was first built in the 1970s, and was built to make a motorway between the East and West Midlands. It is now also used as part of a ring road around Birmingham nicknamed the "Birmingham Box". It is made up of parts of the M5, M6, and M42 motorways.

## Junctions
{| style="margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em; color:black;" class="wikitable"
|-  style="background:#0079C1; text-align:center; color:white; font-size:120%;"
| colspan="6" | **M42 motorway junctions**
|-  style="background:#000; text-align:center; color:white;"
| mile
| km
| Southbound exits (A carriageway)
| Junction
| Northbound exits (B carriageway)
| Coordinates
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 0.00.9
| 0.0  1.4
| The NORTH WEST, Birmingham (W, N & C), Stourbridge, **(M6)** **M5(N)**The SOUTH WEST, Worcester **M5(S)**
| M5 J4A 
| *Start of motorway*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|1.41.6
|2.3  2.6
| Bromsgrove **A38**
|J1
| *No access (on-slip only)*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|5.66.0
|9.0  9.6
| Birmingham (S) **A441***Hopwood Park services*
|J2*Services*
| Birmingham (S) **A441***Hopwood Park services*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|8.4
|13.5
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering Worcestershire*
|rowspan=2|J3
| Birmingham (S), Redditch, Evesham **A435**
|rowspan=2| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|8.8
|14.1
| Birmingham (S), Redditch, Evesham **A435**
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering Warwickshire*
|- style="text-align:center;"
|11.712.2
|18.8  19.7
| *End of variable speed limit* 
|rowspan=2|J3A(TOTSO NB)
| *Start of variable speed limit* 
|rowspan=2| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|
|
| London, Warwick, Stratford **M40**
| London, Warwick, Stratford **M40**
|- style="text-align:center;"
|
|
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering Warwickshire*
|
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering West Midlands*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|14.214.5
|22.8  23.3
| Shirley **A34**
|J4
| Shirley **A34**
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|16.516.9
|26.6  27.2
| Solihull **A41**
|J5
| Solihull **A41**
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|19.920.3
|32.1  32.7
| Birmingham (E), Birmingham International , Birmingham , N.E.C., Coventry **A45**
|J6
|  Birmingham (E), Birmingham International , Birmingham , N.E.C. **A45(W)**
Coventry (S & W), N.E.C. **A45(E)**
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|22.122.6
|35.6  36.4
|  *No access (on-slip only)*
| J7 
| The NORTH WEST, Birmingham (C & N) **M6(N)**
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|
|
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering West Midlands*
|
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering Warwickshire*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|22.722.9
|36.6  36.8
|  *No access*
|rowspan=2| J7A(TOTSO SB)
| London **(M1)**, Coventry **M6**
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|
|
| London (N & E) **(M1)**, Coventry (N & E) **M6**
|  *No access (on-slip only)*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|24.5
|39.4
| Birmingham (Central, E, N & W) **M6(N)**
| J8
|  *No access (on-slip only)*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|
|
|  *No access (on slip only)*
|rowspan=3|J9
| The NORTH WEST, Cannock, Lichfield **M6 Toll**
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|rowspan=2 | 26.7
|rowspan=2 | 42.9
| *Start of variable speed limit* 
| Kingsbury **A4097**, Lichfield **A446**
|rowspan=2 | 
|- style="text-align:center;"
| The NORTH WEST **M6 Toll**, Coleshill **A446**, **A4097**
| *End of variable speed limit* 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|32.4
|52.2
| Nuneaton, Tamworth **A5**, Lichfield **(A38)***Tamworth services*
| J10*Services*
| Nuneaton, Tamworth **A5***Tamworth services*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|
|
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering Warwickshire*
|
| style=background:skyblue | *Entering Leicestershire*
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|39.7
|63.9
| *Start of motorway* 
| rowspan=2|J11 
| Burton upon Trent, Measham **A444**
| 
|- style="text-align:center;"
|40.0
|64.4
| Nuneaton **A444***Non-motorway traffic*
| *End of motorway Road continues as* **A42** *towards East Midlands Airport*
| 
|-
|colspan=6|**Notes**
*Distances in kilometres and carriageway identifiers are taken from driver location signs/location marker posts. Where a junction goes across several hundred metres and the data is available, both the start and finish values for the junction are shown. 
|-

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