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M58 motorway
The M58 is a motorway passing through Merseyside and Lancashire, terminating in Greater Manchester. It is 12 miles (19.3 km) long and provides a link between the M6 motorway and the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton and hence on, via the A5036, to the Mersey docks in Liverpool and Birkenhead.
Apart from the approaches to its terminal roundabouts, the motorway is three lanes throughout. It starts at Switch Island in Merseyside and passes directly underneath the Merseyrail Northern Line. before striking out across open countryside and into Lancashire south of Maghull and Bickerstaffe. It then curves south Easterly south of Skelmersdale before reaching the M6 at Orrell in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.
Since 1949 an upgrade of the Wigan to Ormskirk route had been proposed to improve traffic flows, yet with the decision in 1961 to develop Skelmersdale as a new town, the proposals were revised to provide a link to the M6 at one end and Liverpool at the other.
In October 1965 the Skelmersdale Town Regional Road would cost £2 million, a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) single carriageway, which would be constructed in a form to allow later upgrades to dual three-lane motorway standards, to begin in 1966. There had always been a plan of a route from Aintree to Preston. There would be access roads at Gillibrands, Digmoor and Pimbo.
The first part of the road was opened in late March 1968, as the 'kelmersdale Regional Road between what is now junctions 4 and 5. It was built by Sir Alfred McAlpine and Fairclough Civil Engineering, who built most of Skelmersdale's spine roads. It was originally a two-lane single carriageway road that was upgraded to two-lane plus with hard shoulders in 1973. The Regional Road was planned to be finished by 1970.
The next stage was to connect this road to the M6 and construction on this part began in 1968 and it was opened to traffic in October 1970 as all purpose dual carriageway. The M6 Link, the second stage of the Skelmersdale Up Holland Bypass, was opened on 1 October 1970 by Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, built by Dowsett Engineering Construction.
From September 1971 the first section of 1.5 miles (2.4 km) began construction for an upgrade to dual carriageway. This dual carriageway opened on 8 January 1973, from the A5068 (junction 4) to the A577 (junction 5).
Junctions 5 to 6, of the regional road was upgraded to dual three lanes with a hard shoulder in 1977. These roads were upgraded to motorway status in 1977. Construction started around March 1976, being mostly an upgrade of the 'Regional Road', the A506. This section opened on 17 September 1977, being 3.5 miles to the M6.
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M58 motorway
The M58 is a motorway passing through Merseyside and Lancashire, terminating in Greater Manchester. It is 12 miles (19.3 km) long and provides a link between the M6 motorway and the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton and hence on, via the A5036, to the Mersey docks in Liverpool and Birkenhead.
Apart from the approaches to its terminal roundabouts, the motorway is three lanes throughout. It starts at Switch Island in Merseyside and passes directly underneath the Merseyrail Northern Line. before striking out across open countryside and into Lancashire south of Maghull and Bickerstaffe. It then curves south Easterly south of Skelmersdale before reaching the M6 at Orrell in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.
Since 1949 an upgrade of the Wigan to Ormskirk route had been proposed to improve traffic flows, yet with the decision in 1961 to develop Skelmersdale as a new town, the proposals were revised to provide a link to the M6 at one end and Liverpool at the other.
In October 1965 the Skelmersdale Town Regional Road would cost £2 million, a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) single carriageway, which would be constructed in a form to allow later upgrades to dual three-lane motorway standards, to begin in 1966. There had always been a plan of a route from Aintree to Preston. There would be access roads at Gillibrands, Digmoor and Pimbo.
The first part of the road was opened in late March 1968, as the 'kelmersdale Regional Road between what is now junctions 4 and 5. It was built by Sir Alfred McAlpine and Fairclough Civil Engineering, who built most of Skelmersdale's spine roads. It was originally a two-lane single carriageway road that was upgraded to two-lane plus with hard shoulders in 1973. The Regional Road was planned to be finished by 1970.
The next stage was to connect this road to the M6 and construction on this part began in 1968 and it was opened to traffic in October 1970 as all purpose dual carriageway. The M6 Link, the second stage of the Skelmersdale Up Holland Bypass, was opened on 1 October 1970 by Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, built by Dowsett Engineering Construction.
From September 1971 the first section of 1.5 miles (2.4 km) began construction for an upgrade to dual carriageway. This dual carriageway opened on 8 January 1973, from the A5068 (junction 4) to the A577 (junction 5).
Junctions 5 to 6, of the regional road was upgraded to dual three lanes with a hard shoulder in 1977. These roads were upgraded to motorway status in 1977. Construction started around March 1976, being mostly an upgrade of the 'Regional Road', the A506. This section opened on 17 September 1977, being 3.5 miles to the M6.