Scotch Corner To Gateshead
| A1(M) motorway | |
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| Route information | |
| Part of E15 | |
| Length: | 30 mi (50 km) |
| Existed: | 1965 – present |
| History: | Constructed 1965–1970 |
| Major junctions | |
| From: | Barton |
| J57 → A66(M) motorway J65 → A194(M) motorway |
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| To: | Gateshead |
| Location | |
| Primary destinations: |
Newton Aycliffe Chester-le-Street Darlington Durham Scotch Corner |
| Road network | |
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This section opened in stages:
- Junctions 56 to 59 opened in 1965
- Junctions 59 to 63 opened in 1969
- Junctions 63 to 65 opened in 1970
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Famous quotes containing the words scotch and/or corner:
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
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—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)