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| A19 road | |
| Direction | North-South |
| Start | Doncaster |
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York Thirsk Teesside Sunderland Tyne Tunnel |
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| End | Seaton Burn |
| Roads joined |  A1 road A1068 road A189 road A191 road A1058 road A194 road A184 road A1231 road A690 road A689 road A66 road A174 road A172 road A684 road A170 road A168 road A59 road A64 road A63 road      ![]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Motorway_Right.svg){kind=small} M62 motorway A638 road |
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The A19 is a major road in England running approximately parallel to and east of the A1 road, although the two roads meet at the northern end of the A19.
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Doncaster-Selby
The southern end of the A19 is the junction with the A630 Church Way and A638 just to the north of Doncaster itself near to the parish church. It crosses the East Coast Main Line, which it will follow through Selby and York, through the old Yorkshire coalfield. Evidence of this is visible in the form of old slag-heaps and colliery buildings.
It enters North Yorkshire and the district of Selby at the crossing of the River Went near Walden Stubbs. It meets the M62 at junction 34.
North of the M62, the road passes close to three power stations in a row: from west to east they are Ferrybridge, Eggborough, and Drax.
Selby-Thirsk
The £5m five mile Riccall and Barlby bypass opened in October 1987. This provided better junctions with the A63 (Howden) and A163 (Holme-on-Spalding-Moor). The A63 and A19 meet at a roundabout near a large pickle factory. It heads towards Riccall where the road is much straighter after the bypass; it is following what was the East Coast Main Line before the Selby Diversion was built. Where the road leaves the old railway, the Trans Pennine Trail follows along the old track. At Escrick, it enters the Vale of York, and passes the BP York Road Garage, the Parsonage Hotel and the church of St Helen. Next is Deighton, passing the White Swan Inn, then it heads towards Crockey Hill. It meets the A64 near the headquarters of Persimmon plc. The York Northern By-Pass as the A1237 is a substitute for the A19 through York – this road is poorly engineered and has frequent roundabouts. The A19 still goes through York, beginning with the junction with the A64 close to a shopping centre, then Fulford, meeting the B1222 and passing St Oswald's church. It crosses the East Coast Main Line and passes through Clifton and Rawcliffe. North of York, the road passes the Riverside Farm pub, then goes through Skelton as Shipton Road passing the Blacksmith's Arms and Ramada York Hotel. It re-enters North Yorkshire and the district of Hambleton and goes straight through the middle of Shipton by Beningbrough as Main Street, to the annoyance of many residents. It passes the Sidings Hotel, Dawnay Arms and the Holy Evangelists church. Leaving the village it passes a garage on the left. There is a left turn for Tollerton and goes through Tollerton Forest. Heading northward the section between York and Thirsk was not helped much by the opening of the £5m three mile Easingwold Bypass in November 1994, as the road remained single carriageway, starting at a roundabout. There is a left turn for Raskelf. The residents of Thormanby look forward to their village being bypassed. Here it passes the Black Bull pub. There is the small dwelling of Birdforth with a roadside cafe and crossroads for Hutton Sessay and Carlton Husthwaite. It crosses the Thirkleby Beck near Great Thirkleby and goes across Pudding Pie Hill. It meets the A168 from the south, and the old route through Thirsk is now the A170 then the A61. The bypass meets the A61 and A168 (for Northallerton) at a junction near South Kilvington.
Thirsk-Seaton Burn
North of Thirsk, the A19 takes over from the A168 as the link from the A1 to Teesside and becomes a fast dual carriageway with mostly grade separated interchanges, passing North Kilvington, climbing slightly past the junction at Knayton near Borrowby and skirting the western edge of the North York Moors, meeting the A684 (for Northallerton) after passing through Leake and by the Haines Arms. It drops towards the Cleveland Tontine at the junction with the A172 (for Stokesley and Guisborough). A mile later, it passes the BP Exelby Services on both sides of the road. Eventually after passing the Crathorne/Yarm exit the road hurtles towards Teesside over the Leven Viaduct. From the Crathorne bypass, the road leaves the old route to the east, with the old route now being the A67 then the A135 through Stockton. About a couple of miles from the Parkway Turn (A174) in Middlesbrough the road is raised slightly, overlooking Thornaby Industrial Estate and one of Europe's biggest housing estates known as Ingleby Barwick, giving clues that Teesside is imminent. At the Parkway the lighting columns appear then the road widens to three lanes, then at Acklam at the A1130 interchange it becomes four before two peel off for the A66 for Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough. Either side of the River Tees crossing, the Tees Flyover, is a retail park - Teesside Park with a Morrisons to the south of the river and Portrack with an Asda on the Stockton side, with a mass of industry in the vicinity of the A66/A19 interchange. This interchange is one of the few 4-way free-flow interchanges in Britain not found on the motorway network, and is similar to a four-level stack interchange, but with a single loop ramp covering the A19 south to A66 west movement. This road was improved in 1998 by widening from 2 to 3 & 4 lanes each way the four mile section between the Parkway and Norton. Even in rush hour the road still flows quite well. The grade-separated four-mile £19m Billingham Diversion was officially opened in February 1983, which diverted the traffic through a sub-standard section with roundabouts built in the 1970s.
Past Teesside the enters rural landscape, passing Elwick before running through the new town of Peterlee. At Peterlee a flyover was constructed in the early 1990s to replace the previous roundabout, known locally as the Turnpike. The road crosses the River Wear on the Hylton Bridge before passing the Sunderland Nissan plant. At Testo's Roundabout, the A19 originally ended as the A1 took over to run through the Tyne Tunnel, before that classification became assigned to the Newcastle Western Bypass from the Angel of the North to Kingston Park. To the east the A19 now approaches the Tyne Tunnel, where a second tunnel is currently being constructed to relieve traffic congestion.
The A19 continues in a northwesterly direction, terminating at the A1, just north of Newcastle at Seaton Burn.
External links
- Selby bypass opens June 2004.
- Problems with the Selby bypass.
- New Tyne crossing on CBRD.
- Shipton by Beningbrough villagers angry over bypass postponement in 2001.
- Shipton by Beningbrough villagers losing their patience in 2003.
- Multiple murderer Mark Hobson is caught at a petrol station on A19 at Shipton by Beningbrough.
- SABRE article on the A19
- Highway Agency DFBO Dishforth to Tyne Tunnel
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