A Driving Test Revision Route
This route takes about two-and-a-half to three hours. It visits all the areas in Telford where tests are conducted, and all the most difficult junctions and situations there. It does not, of course, visit every single hazard on every one of the fifteen test routes.
As presented, it starts and ends on the A442 Queensway ("Eastern Primary" or "EP") I've suggested where it could be broken into sections on more than one outing: however, feel free to break it and to start and end at any point you like. Try, though, to approach junctions from the direction indicated - in many cases, that's the difficult one.
Speed limits in braces thus: {30};
Road signs/markings in square brackets thus: [Give Way];
Signposted places in brackets thus: (Whitchurch);
Imm. = immediately, sp = signposted
Section 1
Queensway, Town Centre
- Queensway (EP)
At the intersections - Practice leaving
- Practice re-joining
- Practice passing on-ramps
- Eventually, exit southbound (going UP the hill) at Greyhound Interchange (St Georges) - NB NOT {40} round bend as posted - {25}!
- At end compulsory turn
- Rbt U-turn right 5th available exit (not counting [No Entry])
- Priorslee rbt right 4th
- Hollinswood interchange 1st exit Stafford Pk
- 2nd right after fire station (complex, turn after [Keep Left] sign)
- Rbt right 4th exit
- Hollinswood interchange left 1st exit (Town Centre)
- Rbt ahead 2nd
- At end right, keep in lane, at lights bear right, lane 1 (becomes lane 2), at end keep right, merge to lane 1
- Rbt left, into RH lane if safe
- Hollinswood Interchange ahead 4th exit (Cannock)
- Rbt left, 3rd left onto Queensway slip road
- Keep left to off ramp to Hollinswood Interchange, then right on ramp, 5th exit to town centre
- Rbt ahead 2nd
- At end right, merge left, after lights ahead
- Malinsgate rbt ahead (use lane 2), rbt ahead, rbt left 1st
- Left, imm. right, at end left
- Malingate rbt ahead (use lane 2)
- Rbt left (lane 2 on leaving), rbt ahead 2nd, rbt left 1st, rbt right 3rd
- Left, Rbt ahead 2nd, rbt left 1st
- Malinsgate rbt ahead (use lane 2), compulsory left, merge to lane 2
- Keep right, merge to lane 1, rbt left
- Hollinswood interchange left 2nd exit (Stafford, Whitchurch) onto Queensway
Section 2
Trench Lock gyratory system
- Northbound on A442 from Town Centre, lane 2 (A442 Stafford, Whitchurch) where indicated
- Merge left after Wombridge Interchange, Trench gyratory ahead 4th (A442(N))
- Rbt U-turn right 5th exit
- Gyratory ahead 4th (A442(S))
- 1st exit, rbt left 1st exit
- 1st right, at end left, at end left (uphill), at end left (poor view), at end left (busy)
- Rbt ahead 2nd exit
- Left (slip road), at end right
- Summerfeld Rd {30}
- Mini rbt R
- Gyratory lane 2, 4th exit (Hortonwood)
- Rbt left, rbt left
- Gyratory lane 2, 5th exit (Hadley)
- Mini rbt left
- Summerfeld Rd {30}
- Continue under bridge, 1st left, at end right onto Wombridge Way
- Rbt left onto Queensway
Section 3
Trench, Donnington, Oakengates
- On A442 Queensway northbound app Trench Lock, gyratory lane 2, 2nd right (A518 Stafford, Newport)(1st right buses/taxis only)
- Rbt ahead 2nd
- Donnington double rbt right 2nd, right 4th into Wellington Rd
- Mini rbt left into Furnace Lane
- At end right, at end left into Plough Rd
- At end right (not one-way)
- Rbt ahead 2nd up hill, mini rbt right into West Rd
- Mini rbt left {20}, rbt right, imm. right (Oakengates centre)
- Left, mini rbt ahead (end {20}) under rwy br
Section 4
The Rock, Ketley
- Leaving Oakengates on Hartshill, rbt ahead 2nd exit (Dawley)
- Rbt right 3rd exit
- At end right, 3rd right into Rock Road
- Down hill over speed cushions, right into Overdale - NB: don't turn into [No Entry]!
- 1st left into Ercall View, at end right
- Half-rbt at end right (keep left, lane 2, then [Give Way])
- Ketley lights right, 2 mini rbts ahead 2nd exit (signalling?)
- Rbt (Peugeot garage) right 4th exit (Dawley)
- Rbt right 4th U-turn
- Observe {40} and keep left in lane 1 down Mossey Green Way
- Rbt (Peugeot garage) left 1st
- 2 mini rbts ahead 1st exit (signalling?)
- Ketley lights right
- 3rd right Pool Meadow
- Right on bend into one-way street
- At end left, rbt left 1st, 2nd left Pool Meadow
- Right on bend into one-way street
- At end right - {30} along apparent country lane with wooden lamp posts
- At end left Summerfield Rd {30}
- Mini rbt left
- Lights at new housing ahead
- Lights at footbridges ahead
Section 5
Wellington area
- On Hagyate Road from Hadley, Furrows rbt left
- Ketley Brook Rbt right 3rd (Wellington)
- Arleston lights left
- 2nd left, at end right (complex), right
- Arleston lights ahead
- TeCat (Pedestrian Crossing, then [Give Way])
- Rbt left, rbt left (PRH - BRJ {30})
- 3rd R into Vineyard rd, rbt left 1st, 1st left
- Narrow street [one-way], at end left (very poor view)
- Right into Plough Rd [one way], right
- Mini rbt left
- At end (after New College) left
- Cock Inn lights right
- 2nd right after pedestrian crossing, 2nd left into Roseway
- At end right, mini rbt left, left into Haygate Rd, 3rd right into Hollies Rd
- Keep right over narrow bridge
- At crossroads ahead, continue to Admaston, at end right
- Rbt ahead 2nd, rbt ahead 2nd (A442), rbt ahead 2nd, rbt ahead 2nd
- Trench gyratory ahead 4th exit (A442(S))
- 1st exit, rbt left 1st sp Donnington
Section 6
Red Hill, Priorslee
- On Wrockwardine Wood Way from Queensway, lights ahead towards Asda (Donnington Wood)
- Rbt right 3rd oustide Asda
- Rbt right 3rd, make progress up {60} steep hill
- Approaching rbt to turn right merge to lane 2 in good time, right 3rd, still {60}
- In ¾m right - beware sharp LH bend after turn
- 1st right, right into Freeston Ave, beware sharp left-hand bend, at end right
- Mini rbt ahead 2nd
- Rbt (at Taffs) ahead 2nd (NB itIS ahead, 1st is small road almost invisible, don't make unsignalled right turn!)
- At end left, lights ahead, rbt left 1st (A442 Town Centre)