Abandoned Motorway Junction
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Abandoned Motorway Junction by Hywel Williams as part of the Geograph project.
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Abandoned Motorway Junction
Image: © Hywel Williams Taken: 1 May 2005
This abandoned motorway junction appears as an off-slip of the M1 between junctions 2 and 4. It's not the missing junction 3 - that never existed. Instead, this is the original end of the M1, which was briefly re-used in the early 1990s (hence the new features) when Brent Cross was bombed by the IRA. It has an eerie post apocalyptic look with grass and vegetation growing over it.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.608291
Longitude
-0.243936