Out of date road signs

[Bryn666]

A613... fantastic

[Viator]

It's now 30-40 years since this road (today part of the spectacularly out-of-zone Swansea B5444, a duplicate number to boot) was the A4217.

[Achmelvic]

Two which always annoy me and I think have been mentioned on here before are the destination signs which still say A66 around Darlington even though the bypass opened around 30 years ago. They may have finally be fixed recently as I've not been up to Darlo for a while but are still wrong in these street view captures from July 2018

A167 Grange Road heading in from the south and A167 Ring Road.

What is especially annoying is that it's not like they're out in the countryside, they're both on major routes which at least one person from the borough council's roads department must use on a regular basis but no one has gotten them replaced in three decades, the latter one is only 0.3 miles from the council's head offices!

[Chris Bertram]

The road to Charlestown from St Austell was once A3061. These signs say it still is, though in fact it has been unclassified for an unknown number of years.

[Big L]

I've reported on here before that there are a few A47 signs out in the Eastern suburbs of Birmingham.

[vlad]

The A56 in Chester has come up here many times, although I appreciate it's not really a sign.

[James1978]

Two which always annoy me and I think have been mentioned on here before are the destination signs which still say A66 around Darlington even though the bypass opened around 30 years ago. They may have finally be fixed recently as I've not been up to Darlo for a while but are still wrong in these street view captures from July 2018

A167 Grange Road heading in from the south and A167 Ring Road.

What is especially annoying is that it's not like they're out in the countryside, they're both on major routes which at least one person from the borough council's roads department must use on a regular basis but no one has gotten them replaced in three decades, the latter one is only 0.3 miles from the council's head offices!

They were the very two I thought of when I saw this thread title! I can confirm they are both still there!

[Owain]

The start of the A52 in Stoke is still signed as A524.

[Truvelo]

The former A38 in Bromsgrove and Droitwich still have their primary green signs even though both towns were bypassed many decades ago.

[Dan Lockton]

The road to Charlestown from St Austell was once A3061. These signs say it still is, though in fact it has been unclassified for an unknown number of years.

That's brought back a memory — I remember seeing an A3061 sign somewhere on the long hill in Charlestown in about 1996 (I must have been about 14, and often did the navigation when the family went on trips) and being very confused as it definitely wasn't an A-road in the road atlas or in the Landranger (each a few years old at the time) but the road sign itself looked relatively new. Growing up in Devon I was used to odd road renumberings and stubs and inconsistencies but this seemed very strange.

[Steven]

The start of the A52 in Stoke is still signed as A524.

That's Newcastle town centre not Stoke!

Arguably that's not a old road number as the A524 renumbering seems to have never actually taken place, as detailed in A524 (Ashbourne - Newcastle-under-Lyme).

[JLRacerZz]

well since it haunt been mentioned there are loads of old A1 sings all other place well at least in North Yorkshire

[trickstat]

These examples split into 2 different groups. Those where the out of date number appears on the actual route that used to carry it (e.g my former A505 and the A470 example) and those where the sign(s) direct you to a road no longer known as that (e.g. the M10 one and the A1 in North Yorkshire). I wonder if the latter is more common as it is more likely to have not been thought about when bypasses etc have been built?

[Owain]

The start of the A52 in Stoke is still signed as A524.

That's Newcastle town centre not Stoke!

Arguably that's not a old road number as the A524 renumbering seems to have never actually taken place, as detailed in A524 (Ashbourne - Newcastle-under-Lyme).

Sorry - at least I didn't call it Birmingham!

[ScottB5411]

I made a thread on the same subject way back in 2007- viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16874

The SMT have now merged the 2 threads

[Octaviadriver]

The A427 to the west of Market Harborough became the A4304 when the A14 was opened from Kettering to the M1/M6 over 20 years ago.

A little off topic (sorry), but you can still see Freeman, Hardy and Willis painted on the wall above the sign, though that shop closed over 20 years ago.

https://goo.gl/maps/PaaCdsz3k1a3yVULA

[Mattemotorway]

I made a thread on the same subject way back in 2007- viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16874

The SMT have now merged the 2 threads

I have updated my posts to match.

[ScottB5411]

I made a thread on the same subject way back in 2007- viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16874

The SMT have now merged the 2 threads

I have updated my posts to match.

Gotta keep you folks on your toes

[Bryn666]

American signs are often more out of date than ours due to the love of greenout which then falls off...

[Runwell]

Lots of signs in Essex in East London, mostly on the A13 and nearby roads, but even on the M11 s/b entry to the M25 that still say 'Dartford Tunnel', some 28 years after traffic from the North side of the Thames was switched to the bridge