A167 road

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A167 road
Direction North-South
Start Topcliffe
Primary
destinations1		 Darlington
Durham
Gateshead
Newcastle
End Kenton Bar
Roads joined A1(M) motorway
A1 road
A61 road
A66 road
A67 road
A68 road
A168 road
A177 road
A183 road
A184 road
A186 road
A187 road
A189 road
A191 road
A684 road
A688 road
A689 road
A690 road
A691 road
A693 road
A1058 road
A1150 road
Notes
  1. Primary destinations as specified by the Department for Transport.

The A167 is a road in North East England. Most of its route was formerly the A1 as most of it is the original route of the Great North Road until the A1 was re-routed and with the A1(M) being built in the 1960s.

The route starts from the A168 at Topcliffe, North Yorkshire and runs to Cowgate, Tyne and Wear where the route splits in two. The northern fork continues to Kenton Bar, where it meets the A1 and the A696, while the southern fork heads west, again terminating at the A1, this time at Westerhope.

From the Topcliffe A168 Junction, the route runs north through Northallerton, and crosses the A66 road just east of the A66(M) section. It runs on through Darlington, across A1(M) junction 59, and on to Newton Aycliffe, Ferryhill, Durham and Chester-le-Street.

The A167 bypass at Chilton near Ferryhill was completed and opened to traffic on 20 June 2005. Construction had started in 2004, 65 years after first proposed when the route was still the A1.

Beyond Chester-le-Street the A167 continues to A1(M) junction 63 and through Birtley before crossing the A1 at the junction near the Angel of the North. (The first route of the Great North Road ran via Wrekenton on the present B1296. The second route ran via Low Fell on the A167. The third route ran from the A1(M) junction 65 via the A194(M) and the A19 Tyne Tunnel, to the Wide Open A1/A19 Junction.)

The start point of the Great North Run is on the A167.

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[edit] A167(M)

A167(M) Motorway

Road of the United Kingdom
Length 1.1 miles (1.8 km)
Direction North - South
Start Jesmond
Primary destinations Newcastle upon Tyne
End Tyne Bridge north end
Construction dates 1975 - entire motorway
Motorways joined None
Sliproads to/from A167(M) at Swan House junction
Sliproads to/from A167(M) at Swan House junction

The A167 continues through Gateshead across the Tyne Bridge into Newcastle upon Tyne, where it becomes the A167(M) Newcastle Central Motorway for a short distance. After the city centre it reverts to dual carriageway to its terminus at the Kenton Bar A1/A696 junction.

Originally the road was the A1(M), but changes to the routeing of the A1 have caused changes to the route number[1]. When the A1 was re-routed through the Tyne Tunnel, it was renumbered as the A6127(M)[2] - becoming one of only two four-digit, Axxxx(M) motorways. After the construction of the A1 western bypass, the Tyne Tunnel became the A19 and the A6127(M) became the A167(M)[3].

The A167(M) is unusual in that it has a slip road leading from an unclassified road directly onto the right-hand ("fast") lane at Camden Street; a result of its two-tier construction. It also has other junctions where entry to and exit from the motorway is via the outside lane, which can lead to a lot of weaving and conflicting traffic movement. The A167(M) is subject to a 50mph speed limit throughout.

[edit] Junctions

A167(M) Motorway
Northbound exits no junction numbers Southbound exits
Road continues as A167 to Kenton, Gosforth
and Jesmond, South Gosforth, Newcastle city centre B1318		 Start of Motorway
North Shields, Tynemouth A1058 North Shields, Tynemouth A1058
Byker A193, B1307 (Manors) Byker A193, B1307
Start of Motorway (Swan House) Road continues as A167 to Gateshead, South Shields
and Newcastle city centre, Byker, Elswick A186

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pathetic Motorways: A1(M) Central Motorway East
  2. ^ Pathetic Motorways: A6127(M)
  3. ^ A167 (M). Pathetic Motorways. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.

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