M898 motorway
The M898 motorway is a 1⁄2-mile (0.80 km) motorway in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is a spur route from the M8 motorway towards the Erskine Bridge. It is the highest numbered motorway in the United Kingdom, and also the shortest. It lacks hard shoulders along its length. Its northern terminus comes at the junction with the A726 road, the former location of the toll booths for the Erskine Bridge, which were removed on 1 April 2006.[1]
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| Length | 0.5 mi (800 m) | |||
| Existed | 1975–present | |||
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| South end | Erskine | |||
 M8 motorway | ||||
| North end | Erskine near Erskine Bridge | |||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||
| Primary destinations | Erskine Bridge, Greenock, Glasgow Airport, Paisley, Glasgow Airport | |||
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Junctions
| County | Location | mi | km | Junction | Destinations | Notes |
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| Renfrewshire | Erskine | 0 | 0 | —[coord 1] | M8 - Glasgow, Glasgow Airport, Greenock |
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| 0.6 | 1.0 | 1[coord 2] |  A898 - Erskine Bridge  A726 - Erskine, Inchinnan |
End of motorway; continues as A898 | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||
- Coordinate list
References
- "End of the road for tolls on Erskine Bridge". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
External links
- Glasgow Motorway Archive - The M898 Motorway
- CBRD Motorway Database – M898
- Pathetic Motorways – M898
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