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- A74_road length "149.668992".
- A74_road abstract "The A74, also known historically as the Glasgow to Carlisle Road, was a major road in the United Kingdom, linking Glasgow in Scotland to Carlisle in the North West of England, passing through Clydesdale, Annandale and the Southern Uplands. A road in this area has existed since Roman Britain, and it was considered one of the most important roads in Scotland, being used as a regular mail service route.The road received a substantial upgrade in the early 19th century under the direction of Thomas Telford, who made significant engineering improvements, including a new route over the Beattock Summit and the Metal Bridge just in England just south of the border. Engineering improvements continued throughout the century and into the 20th, and it became one of the first trunk roads in Britain in 1936.From the 1960s the road started to be replaced by a parallel motorway. The last remaining section of all-purpose road on Telford's original alignment, the so-called "Cumberland Gap" between Carlisle and Metal Bridge, was replaced by a motorway in 2008 after years of delays due to a breakdown in discussions between the English and Scottish parliaments.The road was infamous for its allegedly high accident rate, being dubbed a "killer road", which exacerbated the need to provide an alternative motorway route. Several high-profile accidents occurred, most notoriously the debris of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988, which partially fell on the road near Lockerbie and caused several fatalities.Today the A74 is a short link road in Glasgow that does not run on any of Telford's route and, as the A74(M), a portion of the replacement motorway.".
- A74_road county Cumbria.
- A74_road county Dumfries_and_Galloway.
- A74_road county Glasgow.
- A74_road county South_Lanarkshire.
- A74_road length "149668.992".
- A74_road routeNumber "74".
- A74_road routeTypeAbbreviation "A".
- A74_road thumbnail Harthope_Viaduct_over_B_7076_-_geograph.org.uk_-_943207.jpg?width=300.
- A74_road wikiPageExternalLink index.php?title=A74.
- A74_road wikiPageID "841337".
- A74_road wikiPageRevisionID "605004961".
- A74_road alternateName "Glasgow—Carlisle Road".
- A74_road counties Cumbria.
- A74_road counties Dumfries_and_Galloway.
- A74_road counties Glasgow.
- A74_road counties South_Lanarkshire.
- A74_road country "GBR".
- A74_road destinations Cambuslang.
- A74_road destinations Carlisle,_Cumbria.
- A74_road destinations Crawford,_South_Lanarkshire.
- A74_road destinations Glasgow.
- A74_road destinations Gretna_Green.
- A74_road destinations Hamilton,_South_Lanarkshire.
- A74_road destinations Lockerbie.
- A74_road hasPhotoCollection A74_road.
- A74_road history "Classified as A74 1923".
- A74_road history "Constructed 1825".
- A74_road history "Replaced by M6 and A74(M) and M74 motorways".
- A74_road imageNotes "The former A74, now B7076, with the Caledonian Railway crossing overhead via the Harthope Viaduct in Dumfries and Galloway. One half of the former dual carriageway has been removed.".
- A74_road lengthMi "93".
- A74_road map "200".
- A74_road mapCustom "yes".
- A74_road mapNotes "Click map to enlarge".
- A74_road route "74".
- A74_road type "A".
- A74_road subject Category:Roads_in_Cumbria.
- A74_road subject Category:Roads_in_Scotland.
- A74_road subject Category:Transport_in_Glasgow.
- A74_road point "55.83679 -4.1556".
- A74_road type ArchitecturalStructure.
- A74_road type Infrastructure.
- A74_road type Place.
- A74_road type Road.
- A74_road type RouteOfTransportation.
- A74_road type Wikidata:Q532.
- A74_road type Place.
- A74_road type Location.
- A74_road type SpatialThing.
- A74_road comment "The A74, also known historically as the Glasgow to Carlisle Road, was a major road in the United Kingdom, linking Glasgow in Scotland to Carlisle in the North West of England, passing through Clydesdale, Annandale and the Southern Uplands.".
- A74_road label "A74 road".
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- A74_road sameAs Q4649604.
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- A74_road lat "55.83679".
- A74_road long "-4.1556".
- A74_road wasDerivedFrom A74_road?oldid=605004961.
- A74_road depiction Harthope_Viaduct_over_B_7076_-_geograph.org.uk_-_943207.jpg.
- A74_road isPrimaryTopicOf A74_road.
- A74_road name "Glasgow—Carlisle Road".