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M62 coach bombing



The M62 coach bombing occurred on the 4 February 1974, when a bomb, consisting of 25lbs of high explosive detonated in the luggage locker of a commercial coach travelling from Manchester along the M62 motorway between Chain Bar, near Bradford, and Gildersome, Leeds in Yorkshire. The coach was one of a number being used by British Army personnel and their families due to industrial action on the trains.



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