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{{infobox road
|country=GBR
|type=M
|route=45
|length_mi=    7.9
|  direction=    East – West
|terminus_a=        [[Watford Gap]]
|destinations= [[Rugby, Warwickshire|Rugby]], [[Coventry]]
|terminus_b=          [[Thurlaston, Warwickshire|Thurlaston]]
|previous_type = M
|next_type     = M
|previous_route = 42
|next_route    = 48
|established= 1959
|junction=    [[File:UK-Motorway-M1.svg|1000x20px]]<br>[[M1 motorway]]
}}
The '''M45''' is a [[controlled-access highway|motorway]] in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]], England. It links the [[M1 motorway|M1]] with the [[A45 road|A45]] south of [[Rugby, Warwickshire|Rugby]]. The A45 then goes on into [[Coventry]], [[Solihull]], and [[Birmingham]]. The motorway is about {{convert|8|mi}} long. It is not very busy, mostly because many people use the [[M6 motorway|M6]] instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.org/motorway/m1m10m45.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021104195212/http://www.iht.org/motorway/m1m10m45.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2002 |title=The Motorway Archive Scheme Page |publisher=Iht.org |access-date=1 January 2012 }}</ref>

==Junctions==
{| style="margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em; color:black; font-size:95%;" class="wikitable"
|-  style="background:#0080d0; text-align:center; color:white; font-size:120%;"
| colspan="5" | '''M45 motorway junctions'''
|-
!scope=col|miles
!scope=col|km
!scope=col abbr="Westbound"|Northbound exits (A&nbsp;carriageway)
!scope=col|Junction
!scope=col abbr="Eastbound"|Southbound exits (B&nbsp;carriageway)
|- style="text-align:center;"
|7.7
|12.4
| [[Coventry]], [[Rugby, Warwickshire|Rugby]], A45 <br>[[Dunchurch]] [[List of B roads in Great Britain|B4429]]
| J1
| ''Start of motorway''
|- style="text-align:center;"
|6.0
|9.7
| {{no2}}No access
|
|[[Daventry]] A45
|- style="text-align:center;"
|0.1
|0.2
| ''Start of motorway'' 
| M1, J17
| The south, [[Northampton]] M1
|-
|colspan=5|'''Notes'''
*Distances in kilometres and carriageway identifiers are obtained from [[driver location signs]]/location marker posts. Where a junction spans several hundred metres and the data is available, both the start and finish values for the junction are shown. 
|-
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==References==
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{{UK motorways}}

[[Category:Motorways in England]]