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Location mapThe M876 is a little motorway that makes a shortcut between the M80 and M9, and provides a way for traffic between Fife and Glasgow to go from the M80 to the Kincardine Bridge. It borrows a mile of the M9 to do it. Most of the M876's traffic is, unusually, put straight onto the single-carriageway A876 at the eastern end. However, work on the Upper Forth Crossing includes dualling the A876 on from the motorway's terminus and grade-separating that roundabout.

Before the motorway was built, the short spur from junction 2 and the route west of there was a dual carriageway section of A-road. When motorway restrictions were applied, nobody seems to have checked the road first. There's still a pedestrian crossing part way along the spur, complete with paved section over the central reserve! This appears to be the only such crossing on any British motorway.

The M876 is the only motorway in Britain for which the basic rules of maths were re-written. Follow the junction numbers in order and you'll find yourself counting 5, 1, 2, 8, 7, 3!

Factfile

Start Denny (M80)
Finish Kincardine (A876)
Passes None
Length 8 miles
Terminates None
Spurs None
Meets M9

Images

Views of the M876 from on and off the road. If you have a photo to contribute, contact me.

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Here's the M876 in all its glory: two lanes through the rolling countryside of central Scotland. Here we're approaching the M9 from the Glasgow direction.
Photo by Steven Jukes

Construction Timeline

When the various parts of the M876 were built, listed in chronological order.

Open Section
1980 Entire motorway

Exit List

All the junctions and destinations along the route.

Junction   Westbound               Eastbound
(M80 J5) Cumbernauld
Glasgow
M80 Image
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M80 WEST
Fork
M80 N/A


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2 miles, 2 lanes Image Image 2 miles, 2 lanes
1 Denny
Falkirk
A883
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A883

B905
Cuthelton Interchange (non-standard design) A883 Denny
Falkirk
A883
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3 miles, 2 lanes Image Image 1 mile, 2 lanes
2 (A9)
(A88)
Fork Stenhousemuir
(A88)
Larbert
(A9)
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Image 2 miles, 2 lanes
(M9 J8) Stirling
M9 Image
Fork M9





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Cumbernauld
Glasgow
M876 (M80 Image)
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1 mile, 3 lanes Image Image 1 mile, 3 lanes
(M9 J7) Grangemouth
Edinburgh
M9 Image



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M9
Trumpet Grangemouth
Edinburgh
M9 Image

Kincardine Bridge
M876
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1 mile, 2 lanes Image Image 1 mile, 2 lanes
3 N/A







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A905
Roundabout
A876
EAST



A905
Kincardine Bridge
A876

Dunmore
A905

Grangemouth
A905
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