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List of Temporary Termini in England

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Below is a list of temporary terminus junctions located in England. Do not list junctions intended as temporary that are now permanent (such as M23 J7).

Image Number Junction Name Joined Onto Location County Built Used until Location Map Notes
Photo-required.png A1(M) A1 Stanborough Hertfordshire 1973 1986
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0.8 mile south of J5, about 148 yards north of the new A1 bridge crossing the then A6129 Stanborough Road (later B197). Just a continuation onto A1 and a temporary northbound exit from A1 which connected to B197 Great North Road.
Photo-required.png A1(M) A1 Micklefield Yorkshire 1999 2005
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Spontaneous motorway. Roads.org.uk Photo Gallery
Photo-required.png A1(M) A1 Walshford Yorkshire 1995 2005
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Photo-required.png A12 A12 Copdock (Ipswich) - London Road Suffolk 1982 1984
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Western end of Ipswich Southern Bypass had a roundabout with London Road, pending opening of Copdock Bypass and Copdock Interchange.
Photo-required.png A14 A14 Cranford St. John Northamptonshire 1990 1991
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Western end of the Kettering to Thrapston section. Was pending the completion of the Kettering Southern Bypass
Photo-required.png M54 A5 Central Telford Shropshire 1975 1983
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Originally planned to be a permanent junction, but Forge Interchange was built instead. Junction closed when M54 extended to east.
Photo-required.png A30 A38 Exeter Bypass, south of Alphington Devon 1975 1977
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Exeter Southern Bypass eastern end before the connection to M5. Roundabout on OS October 1975 Dartmoor map.
Photo-required.png A30 A30 Cummery (Exeter) Devon 1976 1978
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End of Exeter Southern Bypass section. Roundabout on OS 1977 Dartmoor map.
Photo-required.png A30 Woodleigh Junction A30 East of Cheriton Bishop Devon 1978 1979
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Part of the Cummery (Exeter) to Whiddon Down section
Cullompton Bypass 001.jpg A38 B3176 Westcott Devon 1968 1975
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Conversion of the southern section of Cullompton Bypass to motorway opened on 16 October 1975. Now used as access road for emergency traffic.
Photo-required.png A4023 Marfield Lane B4497 Redditch Worcestershire 1972
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Shown as an at grade roundabout on the 1974 OS 1:50000 map. Removed when Coventry Highway was extended westwards by 1979.
Photo-required.png A329(M) A321 Berkshire 1973 1974
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Junction was basically a t junction. Removed when extension was opened to Coppid Beech
Photo-required.png M1 Page Street A1 Middlesex 1967 1977
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southbound sliproad lasted longer. Still complete and accessible by foot.
M18 - Geograph - 429204.jpg M18 A1146 Hatfield Yorkshire 1972 1977
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A1146 northbound through traffic used Old Thorne Road and then the narrow Crook Tree Lane bridge, which is still accessible today.
Photo-required.png M20 A20 West Kingsdown Kent 1977 1981
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Swanley - West Kingsdown opened on 6 August 1977 per The Gazette. OS 1:50000 of 1978 (revised 1977) showed a T junction. It closed when the M20 was extended south-eastwards to Addington, 13 February 1981 per the Gazette.
Photo-required.png M40 A40 Holtspur Buckinghamshire 1969 1971
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Photo-required.png M40 A40 Oxfordshire 1974 1991
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now under junction 8. Spontaneous motorway end eastbound.
Photo-required.png M5 Piffs Elm Interchange A4019 M5 J10 Gloucestershire 1970 1971
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Temporary extra slip rds to allow W<->N freeflow after M5 opened from north on 16 June 1970. M5 extended southwards on 6 April 1971.
Photo-required.png M5 A38 Thurloxton (Moon Lane) Somerset 1975 1975
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J24 Huntworth to a widened Moon Lane opened on 2 July 1975 to provide an earlier bypass for North Petherton. The section southwards opened on 4 November 1975.
Photo-required.png M6 Hackthorpe A6 Great Strickland Westmorland 1968 1969
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roundabout, orig S end of Penrith bypass, replaced by Thrimby
Photo-required.png M6 Thrimby A6 Little Strickland Westmorland 1969 1970
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two temp slip rds forming a GS fork with A6 as "main" route
Photo-required.png M62 A645 Pollington Yorkshire 1974 1975
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50m west of Green Lane (possibly Field Lane) north of Pollington. Opened 8 November 1974. Closed on eastwards extension opening on 30 September 1975. Dates per The Gazette.




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