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Essential Traffic Routes/Main Routes

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Essential Traffic Routes were a wartime numbering system used in the second world war to guide military vehicles around the country at a time when many road signs had been removed.

Only those routes in the North of England and Scotland can be identified from the copy of Sheet 1 so far found. short routes through bypassed towns are not included in the table below.

Number From To Via Current Numbers Notes
200 Reigate Berwick upon Tweed Scotch Corner - Newcastle ... A1(M) - A167 - B1318 - A1 Originates to south on sheet 2
201 Scotch Corner Stirling Jedburgh - Edinburgh A1(M) - B6275 - A68 - A8 - Edinburgh Airport - B9080 - A803 - A905
202 Scotch Corner Gourock Greenock Penrith - Carlisle - Glasgow A66 - A6 - B7078 - B7076 - A724
203 Liverpool Middlesborough ... A19 - A172 Originates to south on sheet 2
204 Knottingley, Yorkshire York
205 Harrogate Hull
206 Gateshead Stranraer Carlisle - multiplex with 202 - Gretna - Stranraer A1114 - A695 - A69 - A75
207 Tuxford, Nottinghamshire Liverpool
208 Carlisle Jedburgh A7 - A698
209 London Colney Shrewsbury A5
210 Chester Immingham
211 near Salisbury Howden, Yorkshire
212 Daventry Stone A45 - A446 - A51
213 Oxford Skipton Birmingham • Manchester
214 Ross on Wye north of Nottingham
215 Denham Pembroke Dock
216 Leominster Milford Haven
217 near Exeter Penrith A38 - A442 - A41 - A49 - A6 Originates to south on sheet 2
218 Cardiff Birkenhead
219 Cheltenham Leicester
220 Slough Avonmouth
221 Guildford Reading
222 Egham Plymouth
223 Gloucester Maidstone
220 Cirencester Portsmouth
225 Abington Aberdeen Denny - Perth A702 - A73 - M80 - A803 - B905 - A88 - Kincardine Bridge - A977 - B996 - A912 - A94 - A90 - A92




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