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Building the first 55 miles of the M1 took 586 days, this equates to about 1.5 miles per week and the creation of one bridge every 3 days. The overall project was the largest road building exercise since Roman Times. | |||||||||||||
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These pictures show the landscape before, during and after, construction of the motorway bridge spanning the Newport Pagnell to Wolverton Road. | ||||||||||||||
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