You've been warned
Motorists have been warned to expect delays on the M6 as an 'unusually wide abnormal load' is escorted through Lancashire and Cumbria.
National Highways said the operation will begin at 6am on Wednesday and will last around 12 hours. The movement involves a huge electricity transformer being carried from the port at Heysham to a National Grid substation near Carlisle. It was postponed at short notice when it was due to take place last month. The load will straddle two lanes of the M6 as it travels north from junction 34 near Lancaster and all the way through Cumbria.Highways bosses say it will then move into Scotland up the A74 so it can turn and head south. It will then re-join the M6 and leaving the southbound carriageway via a gate adjacent to motorway at Harker just north of junction 44 near Carlisle.
National Highways' abnormal loads manager Gordon Beattie said: "This is an unusually wide abnormal loads movement but we’ve been liaising with Lancashire Police and Cumbria Police as well as the authorities in Scotland to keep any disruption to other drivers’ journeys to a minimum."
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