The M876 motorway is a

motorway A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway, and expressway. Other similar terms ...

in Scotland. The motorway runs from Denny to

Airth Airth () is a Royal Burgh, village, former trading port and civil parish in Falkirk, Scotland. It is north of Falkirk town and sits on the banks of the River Forth. Airth lies on the A905 road between Grangemouth and Stirling and is overlooked ...

in the

Falkirk Falkirk ( ; ; ) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a resident population of 32,422 at the ...

council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) A council area is one of the areas defined in Schedule 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and is under the control of one of the local authorities in Scotland created by that Ac ...

, forming an approach road to the

Kincardine Bridge The Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge crossing the Firth of Forth from Falkirk council area to Kincardine, Fife, Scotland. History The bridge was constructed between 1932 and 1936, to a design by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, Consulting E ...

. It was opened in 1980. The road is long. It begins by turning off junction 8 (formerly junction 5 until 2011) of the M80 and bypasses

and

Stenhousemuir Stenhousemuir (; ) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies within the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The town is north-northwest of Falkirk and directly adjoins to Larbert in the west, where the nearest rail access is located ...

. It is one of only three motorways in the UK which form a

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with another motorway, the M9, which it then leaves again and continues for before becoming the A876.Headline Projects , Transport Scotland
The original Kincardine Bridge was supplemented in 2008 by a second bridge, the

Clackmannanshire Bridge The Clackmannanshire Bridge (Scottish Gaelic: ''Drochaid Chlach Mhannainn'') is a road bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland which opened to traffic on 19 November 2008. Prior to 1 October 2008 the bridge was referred to as the upper Forth c ...

, for traffic towards

Alloa Alloa (Received Pronunciation ; Scottish pronunciation /ˈaloʊa/; , possibly meaning "rock plain") is a town in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is on the north bank of the Forth at the spot where some say it ceases to ...

. As part of the works, the terminal Bowtrees Roundabout was replaced with a

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junction, and the A876 beyond the junction was upgraded to dual carriageway standard.

Junctions

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, 3.6 , 5.9 , 2 , - Stenhousemuir, Larbert;
- Stirling , , - , 5.3 , 8.5 , bgcolor="ddffdd" , — , bgcolor="ddffdd" , - Stirling , bgcolor="ddffdd" , Eastbound entrance and Westbound exit only, begins multiplex with M9 , - , rowspan="2", , 6.2 , 10.0 , bgcolor="ddffdd" , — , bgcolor="ddffdd" , - Grangemouth, Falkirk , bgcolor="ddffdd" , End of multiplex with M9 , - , 7.6 , 12.1 , 3 , - Airth;
- Kincardine , End of motorway; continues as A876 ;Coordinate list

References

External links

Scottish Roads Archive - the M876 Motorway
*CBRD
Motorway Database – M876

Videos – M876

Pathetic Motorways – M876

Upper Forth Crossing details – M876/A876
{{DEFAULTSORT:8-0876 Motorways in Scotland Transport in Falkirk (council area)

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