M62 closures – Friday 6 to Monday 9, and Friday 20 to 23 Monday, September – 9pm – 6am.

Network Rail will be closing the M62 in both directions, between Junctions 19 and 20, for two weekends in September 2024:

• From 9pm, Friday 6 September –  6am, Monday 9 September
• From 9pm, Friday 20 September – 6am, Monday 23 September

The closures are being implemented to facilitate the replacement of a rail bridge over the motorway. There will also be various night closures of the motorway throughout September as part of the same project.

Although the official diversion routes for motorway traffic won’t use Oldham’s highway network, the council are aware from previous motorway closures that, when 100,000+ vehicles a day are diverted off the motorway network, not all will follow the signed diversion routes.

With this in mind, road works on Oldham’s key route network and other strategic routes have been stopped for the whole of September. TfGM will also monitors traffic queues 24 hours a day during the closures to ensure that traffic signals are optimised to minimise queues and impact on the network.