The M18 is a motorway in

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. It runs from the east of

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and is approximately long. A section of the road forms part of the unsigned

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E13.

Route

The M18 runs in a northeast–southwest direction from junction 32 of the

M1 motorway The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK; the first motorway in the country was the Preston By-pass, which ...

to junction 35 of the

M62 motorway The M62 is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield; of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester. The road is part of th ...

. It passes east of

, southeast of Doncaster and Armthorpe, and west of Thorne. It meets the A1(M) at junction 2 (A1(M) junction 35)--known as the Wadworth Interchange—and the M180 motorway at junction 5. Access to Doncaster is provided from junctions 3 ( A6182) and 4 ( A630) The middle half of the M18 is a two-lane dual carriageway, and carries relatively low volumes of traffic. However, the M1 to A1(M) section and M180 to M62 section are much busier, with three lanes in each direction, and there is a small three-lane section northbound between junctions 2 and 3. It passes over the Wadworth Viaduct at junction 2. To the north it then crosses the East Coast Main Line, and until its closure and the dismantling of the pit head gear, a large colliery could be seen to the south at Rossington.

History

* Junction 1 to Junction 2 opened in 1967 * Junction 5 to Junction 6 opened in 1972 * Junction 6 to Junction 7 opened in 1975 * Junction 4 to Junction 5 opened in 1977 * Junction 2 to Junction 4 opened in 1979 The M18 was originally to be part of the M1, but it was decided to route the M1 towards

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instead of Doncaster, and the routing of what would have been the M1 east of

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became the M18. In order to provide better access to Doncaster town centre and the new Great Yorkshire Way to Doncaster Sheffield Airport, the section of the M18 between junctions 2 and 3 northbound was upgraded to 3 lanes, between 20 June 2014 and 12 June 2015.

Junctions

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''Highways Agency'' – Locations extracted from Traffic Camera Popup identifier text The location sequence is a continuation of the M1 location sequence. {, style="margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em; color:black; font-size:95%;" class="wikitable" , - style="background:#0080d0; text-align:center; color:white; font-size:120%;" , colspan="6" , M18 motorway junctions , - !scope=col, miles !scope=col, km !scope=col abbr="Southbound", Southbound exits (B carriageway) !scope=col, Junction !scope=col abbr="Northbound", Northbound exits (A carriageway) !scope=col, Coordinates , - align="center" , 156.8 , 252.4 , The SOUTH,

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M1 , M1, J32 , ''Start of motorway'' , , - style="text-align:center;" , 158.5 , 255.1 , Rotherham A631 , J1 , Rotherham A631 , , - style="text-align:center;" , 163.8 , 263.6 , Newark,

A1(M) , J2 , The NORTH, The SOUTH A1(M) , , - style="text-align:center;" , 165.9 , 267.1 , Doncaster A6182 , J3 , Doncaster A6182
Doncaster Sheffield , , - style="text-align:center;" , 171.8 , 276.5 , Doncaster A630 , J4 , Doncaster A630 , , - style="text-align:center;" , 175.8 , 283.0 , Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Doncaster Sheffield , Humberside M180
'' Doncaster North services'' , J5
''Services'' , Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Doncaster Sheffield , Humberside M180
''Doncaster North Services'' , , - style="text-align:center;" , 177.8 , 286.2 , Thorne A614 , J6 , Thorne A614 , , - style="text-align:center;" , , , style=background:skyblue , ''Entering

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'' , , style=background:skyblue , ''Entering

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'' , , - style="text-align:center;" , 182.7 , 294.0 , ''Start of motorway'' , J7 , The NORTH (A1(M)),

Hull,

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M62 , , - , colspan=6, Notes * Distances in kilometres and carriageway identifiers are obtained from driver location signs/location marker posts. Where a junction spans several hundred metres and the data is available, both the start and finish values for the junction are shown. * Coordinate data from ACME Mapper. , -

References

External links

CBRD Motorway Database – M18

Hotels and restaurants along the motorway.

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Route

History

Junctions

See also

References

External links