 During the 1960s the company built parts of the M6 and M62 in consortium with Alfred McAlpine.Fairclough built the bridges, and McAlpine the roads.. With C V Buchan, they also built part of the M56 Motorway from Manchester to the Wirral, also called the Wirral spinal motorway, together with the various spurs (slip roads) off to Birkenhead, Moreton, New Brighton and Wallasey Docks.During 1972 to 1978, Fairclough built the Liverpool Link Line, partly underground and now called Merseyrail Northern Line, connecting Liverpool City Centre with Hunt's Cross and Southport to Kirkby, and the low level Central Station in Liverpool City Centre.