B2006

Route

Petrol Station, Sittingbourne

The B2006 is a short local road in Sittingbourne.

It starts outside the station on the A2 and almost immediately passes under the line from London to Canterbury East, to reach a roundabout. Many maps show a spur from here heading east along the railway line to reach the A2 one block east of the station. Either way, the B2006 heads west from this roundabout and continues along Staplehurst Road over the Sittingbourne - Sheerness Branch Railway. It terminates at a Roundabout interchange with the A249 near Bobbing.

History

The original line of the B2006, with the current route highlighted

Almost all of the B2006 runs on a completely different route to the original, which started on what was the A2 on Sittingbourne High Street, heading northwest along Milton Road and Church Street to end on the B2005. The current route on the Staplehurst Link Road dates from the 1990s, and associated works with the new dualled A249 and estates around Sittingbourne.

The 0.8 mile road from Bobbing Junction (on the south end of Iwade Bypass) to the industrial area of Sittingbourne at Mill Way was opened on 5 March 1997 by Peter Morgan, County Council Chairman. Contractor was May Gurney, cost £7.5 million.