"Bennett" type junction

[Ross Spur]

This type of junction is mentioned in a Cumbernauld News report of 13 March 1969 for the Jane's Brae / Lenziemill Road junction, with Lenziemill Road being the major route. See https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ind ... &layer=osm

Does anyone what type of junction it was? The one inch editions seem to show a splayed at grade junction.

[Paul7755]

Can’t help with a detailed answer, but there’s a previous thread asking about it here:
viewtopic.php?t=30193

[wallmeerkat]

From the other thread, it's almost a fork junction with a little link road?

There used to be this one - https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6837158 ... ?entry=ttu - near the old Nortel plant, but about 30 years ago it was changed to be a left turn sliproad, with right turning traffic from the fork turning at the junction.

This rural one exists near Ballynahinch - https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4195536 ... ?entry=ttu

[rileyrob]

The original proposed layout of the junction can perhaps be guessed at from the 1:10000 sheet from c1973: https://maps.nls.uk/view/188144817
I am pretty certain that the original intention was for a grade separated junction, but this never happened, and the layout seen in that map survived into the 1980s, if not the 90s. It was then converted to the strange double roundabout layout that is there today.

I wonder whether 'Bennet type' might refer to the southern part of the B8039 which forks off Lenziemill Road with a connecting link road in the angle. Then again, a report from 1969 is surely more likely to refer to the proposed GSJ? This map https://maps.nls.uk/view/130203405 gives the layout prior to 1969, probably.

[Bryn666]

Bennett junctions were the triangular layouts seen in many rural areas of which the end of the dual carriageway in Rob's NLS map above falls into as a design. They fell out of favour around the mid-70s.