Title

M6 Motorway, Acton Trussell and Bednall, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, 12/1960. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

A view of the construction of the Stafford By-pass on the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing Bridge 302 being built over the main Stafford-Wolverhampton railway, looking along the railway line in the direction of Wolverhampton and showing the Dunston Farm access bridge nearing completion. The work on the Stafford By-pass started in June 1960 and was opened to traffic in August 1962.

Date

1960

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM21A84_243

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

106,6Mb (4,4Mb) / 22,8in x 18,2in / 6827 x 5458 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation motorway road England people male work job man men railways engineering worker country guy occupation bridge bridges scaffold scaffolding British English railway structure railway line location infrastructure century railway tracks Britain train track profession railway track construction worker concept civil engineering B&W Staffordshire m6 Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century bypass workers TGN working photograph road building Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding Acton Trussell Stafford Bypass