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Spondon Interchange

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Spondon Interchange
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Location
Spondon
County
Derbyshire
Highway Authority
National Highways
Junction Type
Modified trumpet
Roads Joined
A52, A5111
Junctions related to the A5111
Approaching the junction on the Eastbound A52

The Spondon Interchange is a large, modified trumpet type junction. Land constraints mean many of the junction's slip roads are very tight and therefore they have low advisory speed limits.

It was constructed as part of the Department of Transport's £4.6 million Borrowash Bypass Extension scheme which connected the Borrowash Bypass at Derby Road, Spondon to the A5111 Derby Outer Ring Road and the Derbyshire County Council A52 Nottingham Road Extension Scheme. The two schemes completed the Derby to Nottingham dual carriageway into the City Centre network at Pentagon Island, Derby. Contractor was Robert McGregor and Sons Ltd. Work started in December 1977 and it was to be opened on 29 May 1980.

It included an adjacent surface roundabout with flyover at A6005 Derby Road, the re-alignment of the trunk road with inter-connecting slip roads and the bridging of the Derby to Nottingham railway. Work involved the construction of 1.05 miles of dual carriageway, 3.7 miles of new slip roads and side road alterations, eight new reinforced concrete over-road bridges, one new steel span over-road bridge, two new over-rail bridges and the strengthening of the existing over-rail bridge at Raynesway.

Prior to the interchange

Raynesway meets Nottingham Road, in 1971

The A5111 was in place here before the junction was built, and was modified to accommodate the new junction. Before it was built, the A5111 continued to the small roundabout junction to the North which was, at the time, a junction with the A52. From there traffic would have had to travel through Chaddesden to the Pentagon Island for Derby, or along a short stretch of what is now the A6005 before picking up the Borrowash Bypass (at what is now the Spondon Roundabout) for Nottingham.


Routes

Route To Notes

A52

City centre, Matlock (A6), Pride Park and Ride Monday-Saturday 7am-7pm

A52

(M1), Nottingham, Long Eaton

A5111

Borrowash, Oakwood, Spondon, Chaddesden A6005

A5111

Ring Road, Uttoxeter (A516), Burton (A38), Ashbourne (A52), Loughboro' (A6)

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Derby
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