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The M602 motorway is a relatively short motorway, leading traffic into Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
 and Salford
Salford

Salford lies at the heart of the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. Salford is located by a meander of the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with the city of Manchester to the east....
 by-passing the suburban town of Eccles
Eccles, Greater Manchester

Eccles is a town within the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. It lies on sloping ground between the M602 motorway , and the Manchester Ship Canal ....
.

The motorway itself was meant to be a part of a bigger scheme, the South Lancashire Motorway. To be designated M52, the route would link Liverpool and Manchester, and would be built to provide links to the growing UK motorway network .

However, at the same time, the M62
M62 motorway

The M62 motorway is a west–east Pennines motorway in northern England, connecting the cities of Liverpool and Kingston upon Hull via Manchester and Leeds....
 was being extended north and east of Worsley, around the north of Manchester, and on to Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, to form part of the Trans-Pennine Motorway route.






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The M602 motorway is a relatively short motorway, leading traffic into Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
 and Salford
Salford

Salford lies at the heart of the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. Salford is located by a meander of the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with the city of Manchester to the east....
 by-passing the suburban town of Eccles
Eccles, Greater Manchester

Eccles is a town within the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. It lies on sloping ground between the M602 motorway , and the Manchester Ship Canal ....
.

The motorway itself was meant to be a part of a bigger scheme, the South Lancashire Motorway. To be designated M52, the route would link Liverpool and Manchester, and would be built to provide links to the growing UK motorway network .

However, at the same time, the M62
M62 motorway

The M62 motorway is a west–east Pennines motorway in northern England, connecting the cities of Liverpool and Kingston upon Hull via Manchester and Leeds....
 was being extended north and east of Worsley, around the north of Manchester, and on to Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, to form part of the Trans-Pennine Motorway route. This would be an upgraded version to the original plan of the East Lancashire Road, the A580, but would link onto the existing route at Worsley. It was decided that the Trans-Pennine Motorway be extended to Liverpool too, to provide a cross-country trunk route. The M62 was re-coursed to run via the route of the M52 between Worsley and Liverpool. This would leave a short stump of motorway between the M62 and Salford - this was first renumbered M64 then M602, whilst the southern end of the M62 between Worsley and Stretford became the M63.

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