From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The A428 road is a major road in central and eastern England. It connects the cities of Coventry and Cambridge by way of the county towns of Northampton and Bedford.
[edit] Coventry - Northampton
The road starts on the A4600 Sky Blue way in Coventry, heading Eastbound out of the city meeting the A444 and A4082 roads before crossing the A46 Eastern Bypass and into Warwickshire. The road then passes through the village of Binley Woods before becoming more rural in nature, meeting the Fosse Way and crossing the River Avon at Bretford. Several miles further along the road enters Rugby where it meets the A4071 and A426 and passes Rugby School. It then continues out of the town to the east through the suburb of Hillmorton and crosses the A5 near Daventry International Railfreight Terminal (DIRFT). It meets the M1 at its original terminus, junction 18 and bypasses the towns of Crick and West Haddon. The road passes the Althorp family estate, eventually entering the Town of Northampton.
[edit] Northampton - Cambridge
East of Northampton the road passes Little Houghton (the 2 miles (3.2 km) £1.4m bypass opened in December 1979), Brafield-on-the-Green, Yardley Hastings. After here it enters Bedfordshire and the district of Bedford then meets the A509 at a roundabout. Continuing towards Bedford the road passes Lavendon, Cold Brayfield, Turvey, Bromham (the 2 miles (3.2 km) £4.8m bypass opened in September 1986). It meets the A422 (for Newport Pagnell) at a roundabout entering Bedford. East of Bedford there is a concurrency with the A421, bypassing Great Barford and Roxton (bypass opened on August 24 2006), then the dual-carriageway A1 bypassing Wyboston north of which it regains its identity striking east from the A1. This £120,000 section of dual-carriageway opened in 1959. The 3 miles (4.8 km) St Neots bypass opened in December 1985, originally designated as the A45. The former route through the town is now the B1428. The first mile (1.6 km) of the bypass is also the boundary between Bedfordshire and Cambirdgeshire. Where it is crossed by the East Coast Main Line, it enters Cambridgeshire and the district of Huntingdonshire. The A428 from here to Cambridge follows the former A45, which became the A428 when the A14 opened. The road enters the district of South Cambridgeshire. It meets the A1198 (former A14) at a roundabout near Papworth Everard. From here the road is dual carriageway, bypassing the existing single carriageway section near Hardwick. The road terminates at Girton interchange, where traffic joins first from the M11 junction 14 and then from the trunk A14 road junction 31; the A428 then ends, merging into the A14.
[edit] Former routes
[edit] Bypasses and Realignments
- Crick (Bypassed, now unclassified)
- West Haddon (Bypassed, now unclassified)
- Little Houghton (Bypassed, now unclassified)
[edit] Improvements
[edit] Recent
- Cambourne: Bypassed by a 1.2 miles (1.9 km) stretch of dual carriageway opened in May 2003.
- Caxton Gibbet: A two-lane £55m dual carriageway section opened on May 24 2007 after widening works started by the Highways Agency in August 2005, linking this point to a grade-separated junction at Hardwick (about 5 miles (8.0 km) further east).
[edit] References
A4600 road
A444 road
A4082 road
A46 road
A4071 road
A426 road
A5 road
M1 motorway
A4500 road
A5080 road
A508 road
A5120 road
A4501 road
A45 road
A509 road
A422 road
A5141 road
A6 road
A5140 road
A421 road
A1 road
A1198 road
A1303 road
A14 road
