{"id":752809,"date":"2026-02-09T13:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/752809\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:38:39","slug":"m62-closed-in-greater-manchester-tonight-for-emergency-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/752809\/","title":{"rendered":"M62 closed in Greater Manchester tonight for emergency works"},"content":{"rendered":"

A diversion route is in place and motorists are being urged to find alternative routes<\/p>\n

Tom Burnett<\/strong> Content Editor<\/p>\n

21:18, 08 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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The M62 eastbound is shut tonight(Image: National Highways )<\/p>\n

The M62 is closed in Greater Manchester tonight (Sunday, February 8) tonight for ’emergency works’.<\/p>\n

The eastbound carriageway is shut to traffic eastbound between Junction 11 and Junction 12, National Highways confirmed shortly after 9pm.<\/p>\n

The closure, which is expected to be in place until 6.30am on Monday, comes after flooding on the carriageway this weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A National Highways spokesperson said: “The M62<\/a> in Great Manchester is closed eastbound between Junction 11 (Birchwood) and Junction 12 (M60<\/a>\/M602) for emergency works.<\/p>\n

“The M62 in Great Manchester is closed eastbound between Junction 11 (Birchwood) and Junction 12 (M60\/M602) for emergency works to a drainage system.<\/p>\n

“The eastbound carriageway will be closed overnight until 06:30 9th February 2026.”<\/p>\n

Inrix, the traffic data company, said: “All traffic being temporarily held due to emergency repairs and earlier flooding on M62 Eastbound from J11 A574 Birchwood Way (Birchwood) to J12 M60 \/ M602 (Eccles<\/a> Interchange).”<\/p>\n

Diversion route:<\/p>\n

The following traffic diversion route is in place. National Highways is asking motorists to follow the Hollow Triangle Symbols on road signs in the area:<\/p>\n

Exit the M62 eastbound at J11. At M62 J11\/A574 roundabout, take the fourth exit onto the M62 westbound and follow for 4.5km.<\/p>\n

Leave the M62 westbound at J10 and follow the M6 southbound for 3.6 km. At M6 J21A\/A57 roundabouts, take the first exit from roundabout onto A57 eastbound and follow for 13.2km.<\/p>\n

At A57\/M60 J11 roundabout, take the first exit onto M60 northbound and follow for 1.6km. At M60 J12\/M602 J1 interchange, rejoin the M62 eastbound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diversion route is in place and motorists are being urged to find alternative routes Tom Burnett Content…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,34583,2465,760,16,15],"class_list":["post-752809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-m62","tag-manchester","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116040951997331270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}