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Road Stars

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Roads feature in just about every aspect of Film and TV, identification of these roads often puzzles many, so below are a series of roads that aren't listed in the credits.

Just a few entries at the moment, feel free to add any locations you don't know yet, someone else might just know where the scene was filmed or if the scene is indeed a real road !

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Image Number Road Name Film / TV Show Location Country Map Notes
Photo-required.png A4232 Queens Gate Tunnel
(also known as Butetown Tunnel)
Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead Cardiff United Kingdom
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Incorrectly quoted elsewhere as being the western end of the tunnel, the scene has walls either side of the road, only the eastern end has these. The episode, however, is set in London.
Photo-required.png Swiss 19 Furka Pass Goldfinger Swiss Alps Switzerland
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YouTube Extract
Photo-required.png SS45bis Locatita Porto del Ponele Quantum of Solace Lake Garda Italy
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Several locations and different directions used along the route, generally between Limone sul Garda and Riva del Garda
Truma-S01E01.jpg I280 John F Foran Freeway Trauma S01E01 San Francisco United States
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Screenshot from TV show Trauma S01E01 - Car crash scene on I280 John F Foran Freeway heading northbound
Flashforward S01E01.jpg Unknown Unknown Flashforward S01E01 Los Angeles ? United States Screenshot from TV show Flashforward S01E01 - Major opening crash scene
Photo-required.png Un-named Un-named Survivors MIRA, Warwickshire United Kingdom
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Scene featuring cast stood on empty motorway, second carriageway added by CGI. Misquoted elsewhere as being at Jaguar's test circuit at Milbrook, Bedfordshire.
Photo-required.png Un-named Un-named Top Gear, 2002- Dunsfold, Surrey United Kingdom
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2002 relaunch series, Season 1 onwards
Photo-required.png A52, A5006 Stoke Road Top Gear S08E03 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire United Kingdom
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Amphibious challenge - where James May's yacht won't fit under a railway bridge
Photo-required.png Unc Lake Road Top Gear S08E03 Rudyard, Staffordshire United Kingdom
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Amphibious challenge
Photo-required.png B3390 Station Road Top Gear S08E06 Moreton, Dorset United Kingdom
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Topgear on holiday - Caravans in Dorset
Photo-required.png D5481 Grafton Lane Top Gear S9E1 Bidford-on-Avon United Kingdom
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Roadworks in 24 hours
Photo-required.png Un-named Racetrack Top Gear S10E10 Ronda Spain
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Stig on holiday - BMW M3 Coupe vs Audi RS4 vs Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
Photo-required.png A406 North Circular Road Fifth Gear, 2006-2008 Ace Cafe, London United Kingdom
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Seasons 10 to 13
Photo-required.png Un-named Un-named Fifth Gear, 2008- Milbrook, Bedfordshire United Kingdom
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Season 14 onwards
Ofah mns screenshot.jpg A270 Only Fools and Horses, "Mother Nature's Son" Brighton United Kingdom A270 appears on a gantry sign above the road that the Trotter's Ford Capri is filmed travelling on. Image is a YouTube screenshot of the scene.
Photo-required.png Unclassified Gospel Pass An American Werewolf in London Brecon Beacons United Kingdom
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Because of expense issues, the whole of the outdoor "Yorkshire" scenes are actually filmed near Hay Bluff, which is clearly visible behind the actors in some shots.
Casualty film set on the road to nowhere - Geograph - 5766744.jpg Road to Nowhere Various, including Casualty, Skins, and Broadchurch Yate, Gloucestershire England
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Filming location for many TV series.





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