What is the Motorway Archive? Work on developing the UK Motorway system, which transformed British travel, started in the mid-1950s. The Motorway Archive celebrates the engineering achievement involved in the conception, planning, design and construction of this transport network by thousands of dedicated professionals. The Archive itself is a collection of as many of the documents and artefacts, which were associated with the development, as it has been possible to find. From this wealth of material has come the story of each motorway developed in Britain over the last 50 years. This is the story of one of them.

Region: North East

A194(M). White Mare Pool to Black Fell

The £1.6m contract for the White Mare Pool to Black Fell improvement of the A1 to dual carriageway standard and now designated A194(M) was undertaken by Brimms & Co Ltd. Work started on the contract in April 1968 and was completed in March 1970. The scheme included the construction of the Havannah Interchange with the B1288, the Follingsby Interchange and the A195 and Peareth Hall overbridge. The scheme was designed by the Durham County Council Sub-Unit of the NERCU.