M42 hard shoulder closure northbound
ClearedM42 hard shoulder closure northbound
- Start time
- Fri, Nov 7, 2025 9:44 PM
- Expected end
- Sat, Nov 8, 2025 6:00 AM
- Duration
- 8 hours 16 minutes
- Road
- M42 – Link Road From M5 J4A Northbound To M42 Northbound
- Category
- Road Maintenance
- Direction
- Northbound
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Reason
- Maintenance Work
Live incident
Active roadworks
Planned
Cleared
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- First published
- Fri, Nov 7, 2025 9:44 PM
- Last updated
- Sat, Nov 8, 2025 4:44 AM
- Cleared
- Sat, Nov 8, 2025 6:00 AM
- Latest update: M42 hard shoulder closure northbound
- Coordinates
- 52.354790, -2.061465
- Latitude span
- 52.353436 – 52.355859
- Longitude span
- -2.067245 – -2.055784
- Bounding box centre
- 52.354648, -2.061515
- Location descriptions
-
- link road from M5 J4A northbound to M42 northbound
- M42 northbound between M5 and J1
- Feed validity status
- Active
- Overall feed start
- Fri, Nov 7, 2025 9:44 PM
- Overall feed end
- Sat, Nov 8, 2025 6:00 AM
- Feed window length
- 8 hours 16 minutes
- Probability code (raw)
- certain
- Compliance option (raw)
- mandatory
- Source identification (raw)
- roadworks
- Management type value
- other
- Contra-flow flag (raw)
- false
- Width restriction flag (raw)
- false
- Height restriction flag (raw)
- false
- Weight restriction flag (raw)
- false
Segment 1
3 coordinate pairs- Description
- link road from M5 J4A northbound to M42 northbound
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lane Usage
- Lh
- Lane Number
- 0
- Lane Status
- Closed
- Lane Direction
- Aligned
- Lanes Restricted
- 0 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- North Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {E28513AA-4319-4F13-B0DA-AFBCAE747543}
- Linear Element Type
- A Carriageway
- From Distance
- 344 m
- To Distance
- 461 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.353436 -2.067245 52.353746 -2.065976 52.353827 -2.065653
Segment 2
2 coordinate pairs- Description
- M42 northbound between M5 and J1
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lane Usage
- Lh
- Lane Number
- 0
- Lane Status
- Closed
- Lane Direction
- Aligned
- Lanes Restricted
- 0 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 4 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- North Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {85BC7A82-498B-4211-85FB-C9F5BDE0B715}
- Linear Element Type
- A Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 66 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.354431 -2.063304 52.354656 -2.062394
Segment 3
4 coordinate pairs- Description
- link road from M5 J4A northbound to M42 northbound
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lane Usage
- Lh
- Lane Number
- 0
- Lane Status
- Closed
- Lane Direction
- Aligned
- Lanes Restricted
- 0 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- North Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {25867D53-B975-4359-9B05-7C1ACB6DF6A6}
- Linear Element Type
- A Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 173 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.353827 -2.065653 52.35417 -2.064288 52.354206 -2.06417 52.354431 -2.063304
Segment 4
10 coordinate pairs- Description
- M42 northbound between M5 and J1
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lane Usage
- Lh
- Lane Number
- 0
- Lane Status
- Closed
- Lane Direction
- Aligned
- Lanes Restricted
- 0 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 4 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- North Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {028AB3BB-377A-4B45-956B-04A123BB6A2D}
- Linear Element Type
- A Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 470 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.354656 -2.062394 52.355061 -2.060618 52.35517 -2.060149 52.355332 -2.059385 52.355377 -2.059165 52.355584 -2.057961 52.355692 -2.057242 52.355751 -2.056772 52.355801 -2.056376 52.355859 -2.055784
- Geometry type
- MultiLineString
- Geometry points
- 19
- First coordinate pair
- -2.067245, 52.353436
- Road section segments
- 1
- Road section points
- 19
View geometry JSON
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View road section coordinates
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- Cause type
- Road Maintenance
- Detailed cause
- Maintenance Work
- Compliance
- Mandatory
- Probability
- Certain
- Validity status
- Active
- Road management
- Other
- Feed provider
- National Highways
- Data source
- Roadworks
- Feed version
- 3
- Record created
- Fri, Nov 7, 2025 9:44 PM
- Record versioned
- Sat, Nov 8, 2025 4:44 AM
- Coordinate source
- Geometry
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