M61 motorway the filming of "The Services", a pilot episode for the Farnworth-born comedian Peter Kay series "That Peter Kay Thing", a spoof documentary of a day in the life of the services staff. Data from driver location signs are used to provide distance information. M61 motorway The M61 is a motorway in North West England. It runs from the M60 motorway northwest of Manchester and heads northwest past Bolton and Chorley to join the M6 just north of the junction between the M6 and M65 motorways to the south of Preston. Perhaps the most distinguishing section of the M61 is to
M6 motorway (Ireland) measure to restore access from Dublin to Galway after severe flooding at Craughwell on Friday 20 November 2009, an incomplete section of this scheme between Loughrea and Galway Clinic (Doughiska) was opened temporarily. Until 2011 there were two junction numbering schemes on the N6 route. The M6 junction numbers below are used on the entire length of the road. The Athlone bypass had a separate numbering scheme (J1–J6) but was renumbered to its current form (J8–J13) following the upgrade of the bypass in 2011. Although the M6 is a tolled motorway, there is only a single toll plaza, located at