M1 Motorway - List of Sights Visible From The M1

List of Sights Visible From The M1

The M1 is the only UK motorway to use transition curves (spirals) to connect straights to curves (circles) as is usual with railways. This was found to be unnecessary and curves connect directly to straights (or curves of a different radius) on later motorways.

  • Midland Main Line and Thameslink (between London Gateway services and junction 1, and also between junctions 11 and 12)
  • Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal (Buncefield) (after junction 8 northbound)
  • The Point, Xscape and Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes (between junction 13 to 14)
  • Express Lift Tower in Northampton (between junctions 14 and 16)
  • West Coast Main Line (runs alongside between junctions 16 and 18)
  • Rugby VLF transmitter (between junctions 18 and 19)
  • East Midlands Airport (between junctions 23A and 24)
  • Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station (between junctions 24 and 25)
  • Sutton Scarsdale Hall (on southern approach to junction 29 - visible only to southbound traffic)
  • Hardwick Hall (between junctions 28 and 29)
  • Bolsover Castle (between junctions 29 and 30)
  • Meadowhall Shopping Centre (Sheffield, near junction 34)
  • Former site of the Blackburn Meadows Power Station (Sheffield, near junction 34, opposite Meadowhall)
  • Wentworth Castle (between junctions 36 and 37)
  • Barnsley Town Hall (visible travelling southbound between junctions 37 and 38)
  • Emley Moor mast (between junctions 37 and 38, again between junctions 39 and 40 and also between junctions 45 and 46)
  • Ferrybridge Power Station (Leeds, at junction 42 slip road, north and southbound)
  • Bridgewater Place (Leeds, between junctions 43 and 45)
  • Temple Newsam (Leeds, between junctions 44 and 45)

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