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This tiny little spur is the highest numbered motorway. It just connects the Erskine Bridge to the motorway network at the M8, and that's it.
It's also an early Scottish motorway, and so has no hard shoulders. It's too short to have emergency lay-bys either. Its three-level interchange with the M8 is less impressive when you realise its sliproads are all narrow one-lane affairs with no hard shoulders either! They are, however, a vast improvement on the days when they each had two narrow lanes and no hard shoulder. Ouch.
This motorway is so short that by the time the sliproads have come together to form the mainline, you're already passing the direction signs for the terminus.
As of mid-2006, the Erskine Bridge tolls have been removed and the crossing is free.
Factfile
| Start | Erskine (M8) |
| Finish | Erskine Bridge (A898) |
| Passes | None |
| Length | 1 mile |
| Terminates | None |
| Spurs | None |
| Meets | None |
Images
Views of the M898 from on and off the road. If you have a photo to contribute, contact me.
Exiting the M8, here's a sign of things to come. It sets the tone for the rest of the motorway.
Photo by Steven Jukes
At junction 1, heading northbound, the sliproad has one lane and two sharp bends - sharp enough to be signposted this way. Traffic staying on (what remains of) the motorway doesn't get let off the hook - they have to STOP AT TOLL BARRIER.
Photo by Steven Jukes
Southbound on the main carriageway, this doesn't look much like a motorway! The first sign is a mileage sign following the northern junction; the second is half a mile from the terminus on the M8.
Photo by Steven Jukes
Just off the northern end of the motorway, the toll booths approaching the A898 Erskine Bridge.
Photo by Steven Jukes
Construction Timeline
When the various parts of the M898 were built, listed in chronological order.
| Open | Section |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Entire motorway |
Exit List
All the junctions and destinations along the route.
| Junction | Northbound | Southbound | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dumbarton Duntocher Erskine Bridge A898 |
B815 |
NORTH A898  |
A726 |
N/A     |
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| Erskine A726    |
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1 mile, 2 lanes  |
 1 mile, 2 lanes |
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| (M8 J30) | N/A  |
M8 |
 SOUTH |
M8 |
Greenock M8  |
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| Glasgow M8   |
With thanks to John for information on this page.
