M40 motorway

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The M40 motorway is a major English motorway linking London to Birmingham, serving as a key route through the Midlands and the southeast of England.


Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf motorway
road in England
completedAsContinuousRoute 1991
connectsCity Birmingham
London, England
surface form: London
country United Kingdom
hasBridgeOver River Thames near High Wycombe
hasJunctionWith A40 road NERFINISHED
M25 motorway
M42 motorway NERFINISHED
hasLaneConfiguration dual carriageway
hasServiceArea Beaconsfield services
Cherwell Valley services
Oxford services
Warwick services
hasSpeedLimit 70 mph
isPartOfCorridor London–Birmingham transport corridor
locatedIn England
maintainedBy National Highways
openedInPart 1960s
parallelTo A40 road in parts
Chiltern Main Line
surface form: Chiltern Main Line railway
partOf British motorway network
passesNear Banbury
Beaconsfield
High Wycombe
Oxford
Stratford-on-Avon
surface form: Stratford-upon-Avon

Warwick
passesThroughCounty Buckinghamshire NERFINISHED
Oxfordshire
Warwickshire NERFINISHED
West Midlands
surface form: West Midlands (county)
passesThroughRegion Chiltern Hills
South East England
West Midlands
roadType motorway
routeNumber M40
runsFrom London, England
surface form: London
runsTo Birmingham
servesAs key route between London and Birmingham
key route through South East England
key route through the Midlands
terminusNear Denham
Solihull
usedFor commuter traffic into London
freight transport between South East and West Midlands
long-distance traffic between London and the Midlands

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

M25 motorway connectedTo M40 motorway
Buckinghamshire contains M40 motorway
A44 road hasJunctionWith M40 motorway
South East England hasMotorway M40 motorway
Stratford-on-Avon hasNearbyMotorway M40 motorway
subject surface form: Stratford-upon-Avon
Bicester hasRoadConnection M40 motorway
Banbury locatedNear M40 motorway