where it transforms into the A7 which runs out of Carlisle and across the Anglo-Scottish border terminating at Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh. Former route south of Luton The route of the old A6 south of Luton is now the A1081 for most of its length. In the initial road numbering scheme, the A6 started in Barnet where it joined what was then the A1 Great North Road. From Barnet the road went to London Colney, St Albans, Harpenden to join the current start of the road at Luton. At St Albans, the road met the then A5 at a crossroads: going north on both roads, the A5 arriving from the south-west, and leaving the crossroads north-west, and the A6 arriving from the south-east and leaving to the north-east. Nowadays that stretch of the A5 has also been renumbered so that the crossroads in St Albans is now A5183 and A1081. See also A6 murder – the August 1961 murder of Michael Gregsten at a lay-by on the A6 in Bedfordshire, and the controversial trial and execution of James Hanratty for the crime. References External links The A6 and M6 website Society for All British Road Enthusiasts entry for the A6 Road to Nowhere: A6 Badgers on the Rothwell-Desborough Bypass Road Protest Alvaston Improvement Site. Highways Agency Alvaston Improvement. CBRD Alvaston Bypass. Alvaston Bypass opens. CBRD A555 (former A6(M)). Stockport bypass. Roads in Cheshire Roads in Cumbria Roads in England Transport in Bedfordshire Transport in Derby Roads in Derbyshire Roads in Greater Manchester Roads in Lancashire Transport in Leicestershire Transport in Manchester Transport in Northamptonshire Transport in Nottinghamshire