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A454 Keyway 0

The Keyway-this is a good bit of this was-going-to-be-motorway

Posted by 404simon on 4/25/2004

A454 Keyway 2

looking at it again-how did i fall for it. That's 90% of the 'motorway' there

Posted by 404simon on 4/25/2004

A454 Cantilever sign

We should have these at motorway gore perhaps, instead of the piddily gore signs. This is the only signage for this junction however (it's on the A454 near the M6)

Posted by 404simon on 4/25/2004

A454 Keyway 1

coming up to the start of the truly pathetic motorway (due to it being an April Fool's joke and not a motorway)

Posted by 404simon on 4/25/2004

Valley Park Bridge

The Tettenhall milepost in its setting

Clockwise carriageway of St. David's section of A4150 Wolverhampton Inner Ring Road, looking at junction with A454 Horseley Fields

A4150 Bilston Street Island showing tramway.

A454 near 'The Dilke'

The Bridgnorth Road

The Parkbrook

A454 before the rush hour

Busy Junction, Compton, Wolverhampton

Aldridge Bypass

A454 Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton

Black Country Route View

Traffic signals on the Compton Road

A454 Hilton

Passing Wyken

Wolverhampton in 1922

The Shipley milepost in its setting

Some attractive signs still in the centre of old Bridgnorth

First Lights - Princes Square, Wolverhampton

Queen Square, Wolverhampton

Bilston Motorway

This (from the 1963 Geographers' atlas again) must have been soon after the Bilston motorway was dreamt up. Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 10, 2007 by FosseWay

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Bilston Motorway in 1974

If you look very carefully, it's still there, still proposed... but not a motorway. AA Book of the Road 1974 Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 10, 2007 by FosseWay

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A454 Little Aston

These charming old concrete columns have since been sleeved and now have fluorescent lanterns

Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jan 23, 2008 by Truvelo

Bloxwich Lane, Walsall Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Oct 23, 2009 by Truvelo

A454 Little Aston

Notice the 40mph and NSL sign on the lampost. The mercury lanterns have now bitten the dust.

Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jan 23, 2008 by Truvelo

A454 Little Aston

The concrete columns have been sleeved and most of them now have fluorescent lanterns

Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jan 23, 2008 by Truvelo

Victoria Square, Wolverhampton looking southwest across the square.

Horseley Fields The view down the A454 off A4150 Ring Road St Davids.

Willenhall Road (A454) Approaching Portobello Island.

Keyway Island Portobello The A454 bypasses Willenhall on its way to the M6,viewed from the New Street junction.

The Keyway View

The Keyway in 1987, showing Phase I of construction.

Taken from OS Landranger sheet 139 (Birmingham and Wolverhampton), revision A//*/*/*/*; published Feb 1987.

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The Keyway in 1990, showing Phase II of construction. This includes the portion that only existed in situ for around two years.

Taken from OS Landranger sheet 139 (Birmingham and Wolverhampton), revision B; published July 1990.

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The Keyway in 1994, showing the temporary situation following the removal of half of Stage II.

Taken from OS Landranger sheet 139 (Birmingham and Wolverhampton), revision B2; published July 1994.

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Early 1970s plan for Bilston Link Motorway

1963 plan for Bilston Link Motorway

Compton village from the S Staffs Railway walk

There's a 40-limit along here, and don't you forget it

Looking northeastwards towards Queen Square, Wolverhampton

Looking towards North Street, Wolverhampton As seen from the rooftop car park of the Mander Centre, looking across the western end of Queen Square (historically called Stafford Place towards North Street, with the Town Hall in the shadows there. Darlington Street is to the left by the yellow signed 'Money Shop', and Victoria Street is to the left of the foreground building.