Rugby Road, Swinford

[Berk]

This road was newly built as part of the Catthorpe Project to link Swinford with the A5.

It may not be the most exciting road ever built, but there are no pictures of it that I can find. And due to its rural location, Google hasn’t seen fit to drive that way either.

Does anyone have any pics they could share??

[darkcape]

No photos I'm afraid but driven it plenty, it's a great little drive and formed the temporary M6SB offslip during the upgrade works, built to full DMRB 70mph standard hence it's decent quality.

[roadphotos]

Although Google hasn't been up this road yet it can still be viewed on Google Street view from the A14 to M1 north slip road where it goes over Rugby Road.

[Berk]

No photos I'm afraid but driven it plenty, it's a great little drive and formed the temporary M6SB offslip during the upgrade works, built to full DMRB 70mph standard hence it's decent quality.

Yes, I was wondering about this. From Google, I think the off slip is now buried under an earth bank. The new Rugby Road was built on the other side of it.

Although Google hasn't been up this road yet it can still be viewed on Google Street view from the A14 to M1 north slip road where it goes over Rugby Road.

Yep, just discovered this, it’s the best view we'll get till they cover it!!

Was also surprised to see the 60s M1 bridges (which you used to cross next to the roundabouts) survived the upgrade intact.

[c2R]

No photos I'm afraid but driven it plenty, it's a great little drive and formed the temporary M6SB offslip during the upgrade works, built to full DMRB 70mph standard hence it's decent quality.

Yes, I was wondering about this. From Google, I think the off slip is now buried under an earth bank. The new Rugby Road was built on the other side of it.

Although Google hasn't been up this road yet it can still be viewed on Google Street view from the A14 to M1 north slip road where it goes over Rugby Road.

Yep, just discovered this, it’s the best view we'll get till they cover it!!

Was also surprised to see the 60s M1 bridges (which you used to cross next to the roundabouts) survived the upgrade intact.

Later in the year, it'll be light more when I'm driving around the countries.... so I'll be able to stop to get some photographs if I'm around that way..... Not that I usually do requests

[roadphotos]

The new t junction where shawell Lane now meets Rugby Road can be viewed on Google Street View from the M6 east where Shawell Lane passes underneath.

[ais523]

I took some photos of this road (or of views of other roads from this road) back in 2015 (partly for personal use, partly in case other people were interested). I've put a zip file containing the ones that are nonblurry enough to actually see the road online here (this will probably be a temporary location only). They're numbered in approximate progression from west to east, and were taken with a handheld camera, not a dashcam (I was a passenger and someone else was driving).

Ideally the photos would be uploaded to the wiki, but I was dreading doing that because of the need to location-tag/describe/etc. them, so I never got round to it. (If anyone else is interested in doing that, you have my permission to do so as long as you credit me as having taken them.)

Note: the last few photos depict a roundabout, and there isn't one on Rugby Road, so those must be photos of some other road that were taken as part of the same journey. As such, I can't be sure how many of the photos are actually of the correct road, but I think most of them will be.