Overview and Post-First World War Developments
Most of the English section of the A1 is a series of alternating sections of dual carriageway and motorway. From Newcastle upon Tyne to Edinburgh it is a trunk road with alternating sections of dual and single carriageway. The table below summaries the road as motorways and non-motorways sections,
| Road Name | Junctions | Length | Ceremonial Counties/ Lieutenancies |
Primary Destinations | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| miles | km | ||||
| A1 | 16.58 | 26.68 | London Hertfordshire |
London | |
| A1(M) | 1–10 | 24.14 | 38.84 | Hertfordshire | Hertford Stevenage |
| A1 | 26.25 | 42.24 | Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire |
Bedford Cambridge |
|
| A1(M) | 13–17 | 12.84 | 20.66 | Cambridgeshire | Peterborough |
| A1 | 72.99 | 117.44 | Cambridgeshire, Rutland Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire |
Stamford, Grantham Newark on Trent |
|
| A1(M) | 34–38 | 15.13 | 24.34 | South Yorkshire | Doncaster, Rotherham Barnsley |
| A1 | 7.51 | 12.08 | South Yorkshire West Yorkshire |
Pontefract Wakefield |
|
| A1(M) | 40–51 | 51.14 | 82.29 | West Yorkshire North Yorkshire |
Selby. Leeds York,Wetherby |
| A1 | 7.67 | 12.34 | North Yorkshire | Thirsk Scotch Corner |
|
| A1(M) | 56–65 | 34.46 | 55.45 | North Yorkshire, County Durham Northumberland |
Darlington, Bishop Auckland Teesside, Durham Sunderland |
| A1 | 128.29 | 206.42 | Northumberland, Berwickshire East Lothian, Edinburgh |
Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne Morpeth, Alnwick Berwick-upon-Tweed, Haddington Edinburgh |
|
| Total | 397.00 | 638.78 | |||
A 13-mile (21 km) section of the road in North Yorkshire, from Walshford to Dishforth, was upgraded to motorway standard in 1995. Neolithic remains and a Roman fort were discovered.
A 13-mile (21 km) section of the road from Alconbury to Peterborough was upgraded to motorway standard at a cost of £128 million (£168 million as of 2012),which opened in 1998 requiring the moving the memorial to Napoleonic prisoners buried at Norman Cross.
A number of sections from the Scottish border to Edinburgh were dualed between 1999 and 2004, including a 1.9-mile (3 km) section from Spott Wood to Oswald Dean in 1999, 1.2-mile (2 km) sections from Bowerhouse to Spott Road and from Howburn to Houndwood in 2002–2003 and the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) "A1 Expressway", from Haddington and Dunbar in 2004. The total cost of these works was some £50 million.
Plans to dual the single carriageway section of road north of Newcastle upon Tyne were shelved in 2006 as they were not considered a regional priority by central government. The intention was to dual the road between Morpeth and Felton and between Adderstone and Belford.
In 1999 a section of A1(M) between Bramham and Hook Moor opened to traffic along with the extension of the M1 from Leeds. Under a DBFO contract, sections from Wetherby to Walshford and Darrington to Hook Moor were opened in 2005 and 2006, taking the section to a junction.
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