Motorways in UK: M40 (London-Oxford-Birmingham)

M40 is a motorway connecting London to Birmingham, part of the European Route E 05, running from Greenock, Scotland, to Algeciras, Spain. 

M40 cover a distance of 89 miles (143 kilometers) and passes through four counties: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.

The first part of this motorway was built between 1967 and 1974 and connected London to Oxford, the university town home of the University of Oxford, the oldest British and English-speaking world university. 

The second section, linking Oxford to Birmingham, was constructed between 1987 and 1998. 

Here you can find everything about M40 motorway junctions and service areas. 

M40 is dual three lanes, with three exceptions: 

• Junction 1A to J3, which is dual four lanes;

• a short section past J4, which is dual two lanes;

• a short section past J9, two lanes southbound.

Today, both of England's famous Universities, Oxford and Cambridge, have a direct motorway connection to London: M40 and M11. But M40 reached Oxford almost ten years before the M1 reached Cambridge, rumors saying that, at the time when the schemes were being created, more members of the Parliament had gone to Oxford 

Driving experience on M40, from London to Oxford: