M898 motorway

The M898 motorway is a 1-mile-long (1.6 km) motorway in Renfrewshire, Scotland.^[1] It is a spur route from the M8 motorway towards the Erskine Bridge. It lacks hard shoulders along its length. Its northern terminus comes at the junction with the A726 road, the former location of the toll booths for the Erskine Bridge, which were removed on 1 April 2006.^[2]

M898
M898 highlighted in blue
Route information
Length	1 mi (1.6 km)
Existed	1975–present
Major junctions
Southwest end	Erskine
Major intersections	M8 motorway
Northeast end	Erskine near Erskine Bridge
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Primary destinations	Erskine Bridge, Greenock, Glasgow Airport, Paisley, Glasgow Airport
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones
← M876

Junctions

County	Location	mi	km	Junction	Destinations	Notes
Renfrewshire	Erskine	0	0	—[coord 1]	M8  - Glasgow, Glasgow Airport, Greenock
		1.0	1.6	1[coord 2]	A898  - Erskine Bridge A726 - Erskine, Inchinnan	End of motorway; continues as A898
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Coordinate list

1. 55.900°N 4.484°W / 55.900; -4.484 (Junction 30 of M8)
2. 55.909°N 4.472°W / 55.909; -4.472 (Junction 1 of M898)

References

1. "M898". Roads.org.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
2. "End of the road for tolls on Erskine Bridge". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 7 October 2021.

External links

Template:Attached KML/M898 motorway

KML is from Wikidata

• Glasgow Motorway Archive - The M898 Motorway
• CBRD Motorway Database – M898
• Pathetic Motorways – M898