Old A12 (london road)

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Unbreakify
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Old A12 (london road)

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I know this has already been covered, but come on, 2007 was like.. 14 years ago!
And half the topic / images are deleted or gone.

Why not talk about it again? Its been 14 years.

Anyways, yeah. Old A12. London Road.
Coords: 52.03975565477671, 1.0941054999825317

Any new info on it? or images? i'd love to see.
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Unbreakify wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 21:02 I know this has already been covered, but come on, 2007 was like.. 14 years ago!
And half the topic / images are deleted or gone.

Why not talk about it again? Its been 14 years.

Anyways, yeah. Old A12. London Road.
Coords: 52.03975565477671, 1.0941054999825317

Any new info on it? or images? i'd love to see.

Erm its a road from London to Lowestoft and a bunch of places got bypassed, its all in the Wiki and you can use Sabre maps to see the old route
sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A12/History
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I think the OP is asking about London Road in Copdock, which used to be the A12 and is at the coordinates they listed, not the A12 in general.

I’m not sure about new information or pictures - that road is now very minor and doesn’t change much. I understand the old trunk road lights have now been replaced with much smaller ones that match its status as a minor road.
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Yes, im talking about the old 2-mile A12. I sent the coordinates. Did you not see? :confused:
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Did you not see we had a thread on Copdock improvements? Probably the only material change in the area since the original thread, unless you count the SPECS south of Copdock?
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Unbreakify wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:56 Yes, im talking about the old 2-mile A12. I sent the coordinates. Did you not see? :confused:
Had you said Copdock or A14 J55 it would have saved me messing about in Google Earth but the fact remains its just another bypassed bit of road. If you want to see all the changes just go to Sabre Maps and look at one of the old maps, the 1971 Route Planner or OS 7th Series layer will do the job nicely. There are rather a lot of them, at least 3 are now just labelled London Road. Its on GSV so seeing what it looks like now is not hard. Having taken a look I cant see much has changed.

2009
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.03177 ... 6656?hl=en

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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.03176 ... 8192?hl=en
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Mind sending me a link to these maps? I've only just made an account. 2 months ago, i think.
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Unbreakify wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 20:41 Mind sending me a link to these maps? I've only just made an account. 2 months ago, i think.
sabre-roads.org.uk/maps

It is also usually considered good etiquette to bring something new to a discussion which is why there has been nothing really posted about an otherwise uninteresting bypassed road in 14 years. It only draws attention because it happens to be a dual carriageway, otherwise it would be no different to the other hundreds of thousands of bypassed alignments in the country.
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Bryn666 wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 21:10
Unbreakify wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 20:41 Mind sending me a link to these maps? I've only just made an account. 2 months ago, i think.
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps
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Steven wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 07:56
Bryn666 wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 21:10
Unbreakify wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 20:41 Mind sending me a link to these maps? I've only just made an account. 2 months ago, i think.
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps
Or "Maps" in the big yellow bar at the top of the screen. Or "Maps" from the SABRE home page.

Or search for "SABRE Maps" in the SABRE Wiki; which is also available from the above yellow bar and the SABRE home page.
Please make it clearer next time. Or provide x/y pixel coordinates for the buttons you describe. :D

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