Old road alignments

[Halmyre]

A985 - when the Torryburn and Valleyfield by-pass was opened in 1977 it left this bit at the eastern end:

https://goo.gl/maps/23kEfrD7skJ2

and this at the western end:

https://goo.gl/maps/58YhzT2AgNS2

[shampooefficient]

This bit of Yarm Back Lane was removed when I was a nipper (I dare not count the years... early Sabristic tendencies though!). I dimly remember being told that they'd taken the bad bend out, I had visions of them just digging the old road up in one piece and putting it on a lorry. Lego may have influenced my knowledge of road building techniques...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.55928 ... a=!3m1!1e3

[the cheesecake man]

In my humble experience few superseded roads are removed completely. Far more are required for access or left as a path. For example this road has been bypassed and left as a foot and cycle path. But turn round and the next section has been dug up and returned to fields.

[KeithW]

This bit of Yarm Back Lane was removed when I was a nipper (I dare not count the years... early Sabristic tendencies though!). I dimly remember being told that they'd taken the bad bend out, I had visions of them just digging the old road up in one piece and putting it on a lorry. Lego may have influenced my knowledge of road building techniques...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.55928 ... a=!3m1!1e3

Presumbly this was when they were clearing the route for the A66 which replaced the old A67.

[DB617]

On the new 60mph A4226, the old lane has been left in place as an LAR for the villages and hamlets to the west, which used to share the lane with heavy traffic to and from the A48. There are two ghost island junctions allowing access from new to old. The old lane was meant to also be a diversion from the fast link road for NMUs, with a modal filter at either end (a crap old style slalom barrier sadly) but cyclists almost exclusively ride in the shoulder of the new road. Bonkers I tell you.

[Norfolktolancashire]

In my humble experience few superseded roads are removed completely. Far more are required for access or left as a path. For example this road has been bypassed and left as a foot and cycle path. But turn round and the next section has been dug up and returned to fields.

I love the fact that a solitary lampost is still covering where the old road has been removed!

[MotorwayPlannerM21]

Sometimes they're turned into big car parks!

[ForestChav]

Sometimes they're turned into big car parks!

see also: here

[agc2070]

These ones come to mind on the local section of the A20:

A20 - small remnants of the original route near Hothfield and further west, including the one by the chip shop
A20 - near Hare and Hounds pub, Potters Corner, Ashford - a loop of the old road remains - there is a further remnant east of here which is just a dead end serving properties
A20 - through Ashford - renumbered A292
A20 - north of new roundabout for junction 10A - returned to fields
A20 - loop of road to the south of existing route, west side of Newingreen
A20 - old route dead end leading to former Channel Tunnel exhibition centre south of M20, Cheriton
A20 through Cheriton / old Folkestone bypass - now B2064, A2034, A259 and A260
A20 - Folkestone to Dover - renumbered B2011

[agc2070]

Let’s have a go at the A259 now:

A259 - lane-like remnants criss-cross the route between Pevensey and western Bexhill
A259 - original route via Bexhill pre King Offa Way
A259 - small loop between Icklesham and Winchelsea
A259 - unclassified original route via Winchelsea town and stone arch
A259 - pre bypass remnants, one each side from roundabout, in Brookland
A259 - loop of road west of New Romney
A259 - loop of road by Prince of Wales pub, Hythe (one of several small loops in western Hythe)