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Ryton Island

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Ryton Island
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Location
Ryton-on-Dunsmore
County
Warwickshire
Highway Authority
National Highways
Junction Type
Roundabout
Roads Joined
A45, A445, C207 (Warwickshire)

Ryton Island on the outskirts of Ryton-on-Dunsmore is the point where the A45 from the direction of the M1 forks left to the A445 and Royal Leamington Spa. The main industry in the area was BLMC then most recently Peugeot. The site was closed in 2007.

History

The original junction

The junction originally consisted of two gaps in the central reservation to cater for all the right turns. The road to Wolston was numbered B4029 until around 1990 and the direction signs which survived until the roundabout was built still had this number patched over.

Early 90s upgrade proposal

The junction had a poor safety record and a scheme to close the gaps and replace them with a GSJ was put forward in the early 1990s. In addition to the main junction the gap at Church Road to the west would also be closed and a new link road to High Street would be built beneath the A45. This scheme made it to the Orders stage but was never carried out.

By the turn of the millennium new measures were proposed to improve safety. This involved reducing the speed limit to 50mph and installing speed cameras in 2001 but between 1999 and 2004 there were four fatal accidents and several serious. A roundabout was eventually built in 2005.

Routes

Route To Notes

A45

London, Northampton (M1 (South),M45), Rugby (A4071)

A45

Coventry, Warwick, Coventry Airport, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Leamington (A46), Leicester (M69)

A445

Southam (A423)

C207

Wolston formerly B4029




Ryton Island
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Junctions on the A45
Birmingham - M1 SectionCamp Hill Flyover • Bordesley Circus • Poets Corner • Heybarne's Circus • Swan Island • Wells Green • Clock • Bickenhill • Stonebridge • Pickford Green • Tile Hill Gyratory • Stivichall • Tollbar End • Ryton Island • Memorial Island • Blue Boar • Thurlaston • Dunchurch • Kislingbury
M1 - Thrapston SectionCollingtree • Queen Eleanor • Brackmills • Barns Meadow • Lumbertubs Way • Great Billing • 10 Earls Barton • 11 Junction 11 • Willby Way Roundabout • 14 Little Irchester • 16 Irchester Bridge • 17 Skew Bridge Roundabout • 18 Chowns Mill Roundabout • Stanwick Roundabout • Raunds Island • Thrapston
Former Rushden - Felixstowe SectionSkew Bridge Roundabout • Hail Weston • Caxton Gibbet • Madingley • Girton • Histon • Milton • Fen Ditton • Quy • Nine Mile Hill • Exning • Waterhall • Kentford • Higham • Risby • Westley • St Saviours • Moreton Hall • Rookery Crossroads • Beyton • Woolpit • A14 Junction 47A • Quarries Cross • Tot Hill • Cedars • Beacon Hill • Claydon Roundabout • Barrack Corner • Whitehouse • Sproughton • Copdock • Wherstead • Nacton • Seven Hills • Trimley • Dock Spur Roundabout • Port of Felixstowe • Dock Gate 1 Roundabout


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