Theres a works unit only exit on the M11 just south of J5 Loughton. I
assumed this was just another gritter depot or police escape road but
if you look on google earth theres some sort of office building with a
neat car park on the western side. Anyone know what this is? Is it a
motorway police station or something like that?

B2003

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:00:50 -0700, Boltar put finger to keyboard and
typed:

Theres a works unit only exit on the M11 just south of J5 Loughton. I
assumed this was just another gritter depot or police escape road but
if you look on google earth theres some sort of office building with a
neat car park on the western side. Anyone know what this is? Is it a
motorway police station or something like that?

The site was originally going to be used for a motorway services area
(tentatively named "Chigwell Services"), but it never got built. It's
now used by the Police and Highways Agency as a control centre and
staff base.

Mark
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Mark Goodge wrote:

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:00:50 -0700, Boltar put finger to keyboard and
typed:

Theres a works unit only exit on the M11 just south of J5 Loughton. I
assumed this was just another gritter depot or police escape road but
if you look on google earth theres some sort of office building with a
neat car park on the western side. Anyone know what this is? Is it a
motorway police station or something like that?

The site was originally going to be used for a motorway services area
(tentatively named "Chigwell Services"), but it never got built. It's
now used by the Police and Highways Agency as a control centre and
staff base.

One of the less interesting "works unit" exits. The fun ones have red
and grey signs.

On Oct 21, 6:32 pm, (Steve Firth) wrote:
One of the less interesting "works unit" exits. The fun ones have red
and grey signs.

That would be those "secret" military ones in plain view on google
earth?

B2003

Boltar wrote:
On Oct 21, 6:32 pm, (Steve Firth) wrote:
One of the less interesting "works unit" exits. The fun ones have red
and grey signs.

That would be those "secret" military ones in plain view on google
earth?

B2003

One of those secret military ones was an exit onto the M4 at what was
RAF Welford. This was used as a major bomb dump for the USAF until
relatively recently - there were notes of its use in Gulf War 1.

This was never marked on the local OS map, but it could be seen from the
air and presumably the junction with the M4 was obvious to drivers on
the motorway.
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