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The UK’s greatest motorway is an particularly noteworthy behemoth boasting 17 lanes for visitors – however solely runs for simply over 20 miles.

The M61 is a brief stretch  that runs over 22 miles via the Midlands, from Preston to Bolton. People taking the route can use it to get between every metropolis inside an hour, and tons of of hundreds of individuals achieve this each month.

Most of the street is because it sounds, a run-of-the-mill part of motorway that ferries folks via a well-trodden a part of the Midlands.

But, surprisingly, the M61 has a world-record-holding junction that has been recognised within the Guinness Book of World Records.

The Worsley Braided Interchange, on the southeastern finish of junction Two at Linnyshaw Moss, Greater Manchester, earned a spot on this planet report tome in 1993.

The interchange has 17 lanes of visitors, every operating aspect by aspect, coated by eight full-width laborious shoulders.

The lanes had been constructed throughout a number of carriageways – every operating parallel – however they nonetheless kind a stretch of the identical motorway fashioned in a “basketweave interchange”.

Despite fixed building across the UK, no motorway is but to beat that staggering variety of lanes, so the interchange has retained its report for the final 30 years.

The motorway was as soon as well-known for one thing else completely greater than a decade in the past: the Bolton West Services.

The companies – discovered between Junctions Six and Eight – had a status for being notably run down, having been famous for its Nineteen Seventies buildings, leaky roofs, and ugly smells.

They turned so notorious over time that comic Peter Kay filmed a comedic documentary of a fictional service station boss named Pearl Harbour, who was ready for the arrival of Bob Carolgees.

In 2011, the companies lastly acquired a much-needed £12.3million facelift and new homeowners in Blackburn-based Euro Garages. Then-manager Shabbir Bukhat stated on the time: “Before, it was very bad. People would drive in, take a look and just drive off again.

“Since we reopened I’ve acquired a couple of playing cards from the regulars saying, ‘Well carried out and good luck.'”