Lockdown Quiz!!! c/o Roads.org.uk *answers revealed*

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(27) is Park Lane, the spoil from exavating the car park there went into construction on the M4

[DSdriver]

40. Maidstone, the road running north is the A229 Bluebell Hill which goes to Rochester/Chatham. The dual carriageway running east/west became the M20.

[Dave_Q]

I think number 6 is the A627(M), it has a roundabout in the middle where it meets the M62 and a motorway classified spur off it on the Middleton side.

[Dave_Q]

Number 2 could be the B3400 which was apparently the A30 until 1933.

[willswitchengage]

Yesssssssss got another. The first map is the M62/M1 junction in Yorkshire. The railway line is the Leeds-Wakefield line that I have travelled along far too many times!

[Dave_Q]

Is 47 the Tinsley viaduct? 

[willswitchengage]

11 hours ago, Dave_Q said:

Is 47 the Tinsley viaduct? 

I thought so too but both levels are open on the TV, albeit only one is a motorway.

[busmansholiday]

Number 4 is the Aust Ferry, replaced by the original Severn crossing that was the M4, now the M48.

[Skizzer]

On 4/25/2020 at 8:02 PM, angle said:

(4) is Aust Ferry but not sure what road it is - as far as I know it were all B-roads round here before the suspension bridge came in 1966. A48? As a transport planner I'm coming back to this... 

 

17 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Number 4 is the Aust Ferry, replaced by the original Severn crossing that was the M4, now the M48.

What was the road to it though? I don’t think it was the A48, that runs up the Wales side towards Gloucester.

[Skizzer]

On 4/25/2020 at 8:49 PM, chaseracer said:

Nope! ?

Many apologies sir — in my excitement I had somehow missed that it was you who did a lot of the early heavy lifting! RISPECK YO.

[busmansholiday]

A4 would be my guess

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1 hour ago, Skizzer said:

 

What was the road to it though? I don’t think it was the A48, that runs up the Wales side towards Gloucester.

Here's a 1960 OS map - unless they're after obscure B-roads I reckon it has to be the A48. On the southern side the closest major road is the A38, but its a mile or so away at Almondsbury. 

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Dammit, I should have looked properly at the zebra crossing picture seeing as I spoke to the lady in charge of putting them in at Westminster about them last year. That's St John's Wood High Street. 

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And (41), Operation Brock is the no deal Brexit planning on the M20 isn't it? 

[busmansholiday]

Number 3 is the A601 which is the Derby inner ring road and the A601(M) which is from the M6 J36 to Carnforth.

Still think4 is the A4 which used to go to Bristol.

[busmansholiday]

Is 47 the M606?. It starts at the M62 and runs up the hill to end above Bradford with a view down the valley. It was originally going to go over the valley and onwards towards Shipley.

[busmansholiday]

2 hours ago, angle said:

Here's a 1960 OS map - unless they're after obscure B-roads I reckon it has to be the A48. On the southern side the closest major road is the A38, but its a mile or so away at Almondsbury. 

Looking at that map, and as Dylan was traveling from a gig in Bristol to Cardiff it's got to be that B4055

[busmansholiday]

47 could be the Gateshead Highway, need one of our Northern shiters to think about that.

[busmansholiday]

22, AES Ministry.

[busmansholiday]

23, The Motorwarn lamps

(two flashing yellow lights to warn of fog on the motorway) "were so temporary in nature that, when Tom Fraser went to the M4 near Heathrow to inaugurate the scheme in front of the press, he was embarrassed to find that a number of them had already been stolen".

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Ok, number 9 had to be in Cheshire (because we all know that's the only rich bit of the bleak north, right?) so it had to be Liverpool or Manchester Airport. Turns out the A555 used to be part of the Barnet bypass but is now the Manchester Airport Relief Road. 

[busmansholiday]

Picture 4 looks like the A448 Warwick Way, near Redditch.

[busmansholiday]

Cheating time,

Picture 2, Essex,  Bulmer Tye

 

 

[busmansholiday]

Picture 3, 

The Taf Fechan Bridge carrying the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road.

 

Picture 5, Queensway Tunnel

 

[busmansholiday]

Last pic, Charter Way, just off the North Circ in somewhere called London.

[busmansholiday]

Reading through the website of the people who set this and 47 is more than likely the A58, Burdock Way in Halifax.

 

 

[willswitchengage]

13 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

Picture 4 looks like the A448 Warwick Way, near Redditch.

Good commitment! I think I have found the exact location on streetview. Cheating answers not published

[busmansholiday]

47 minutes ago, willswitchengage said:

Good commitment! I think I have found the exact location on streetview. Cheating answers not published

Spent ages looking at that road and thinking "driven down there not that long ago".  Eventualy realised it was dodging around the M42.

[Dave_Q]

On 4/27/2020 at 6:51 PM, busmansholiday said:

Reading through the website of the people who set this and 47 is more than likely the A58, Burdock Way in Halifax.

 

 

I agree, actually I thought of that before Tinsley but didn't get the reference to an upper deck and didn't think to check the site for it.

[willswitchengage]

Answers are up. An impressive 35/50. Well done team.