Dartmouth Circus

Dartmouth Circus is a junction connecting the A38(M) Aston Expressway to the A4540 Middle Ring Road in Birmingham. It is numbered Junction 13 of the Middle Ring.

History

Original plan for the junction (right)

As with many junctions in Birmingham, the present junction was built in the middle of a dense industrial area. The White Hart pub stood in the middle of where the roundabout now is, which was where several roads converged.

The junction was intended to be on three levels with a flyover carrying the A4540 over the junction. The flyover was never built and correspondence from the late 1960s shows the roundabout would be overloaded within a few years of opening and building it later would involve additional cost and disruption.

The roundabout did indeed become overloaded and is now controlled by traffic lights.

Routes

Route	To	Notes
A38(M)	NORTH WEST, Wolverhampton (M6), London, Coventry (M6), Sutton Coldfield, Erdington (A5127), (M5, M40, M42)
A38	City centre, Bromsgrove, New Street Station, City Centre & Bull Ring Parking, Children's Hospital, Aston University, Aston Science Park
A4540	Ring Road, West B'wich (A41), Walsall, Perry Bar (A34)
A4540	Ring Road, B'ham Airport/NEC (A45), Lichfield (A47), Markets, Millennium Point, Shopping Bull Ring Car Park
A5127	Aston
	Thomas Street