Police are warning of traffic congestion as the massive fuselage of an Airbus A321 plane trundles across the West this weekend.
The plane is being taken from south Wales to the 'plane graveyard' at Cotswold Airport on the Wiltshire-Gloucestershire border, and will take up two lanes of the M4 today and tomorrow.
Measuring 20ft wide, 16ft high and 151ft long, it weighs 58 tonnes and will be "slow moving" as it travels east along the M4 into the West on Saturday. On Sunday it will continue across Wiltshire on the M4, before heading north along the A417 to the east of Swindon to Cirencester, and then on the A419 to Kemble.
Police appealed for patience and added that when on the A419, the cargo would take up both northbound carriageways. The load was due to travel earlier in February, but the journey was postponed because of storms.
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