Recently the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) stopped publishing the driving test routes for each test centre to prevent test candidates from practicing the routes that the examiners take you on.
The driving test routes for Orkney Driving Test Centre may have altered in the mean-time, although it is likely they are very similar if not identical. Listed below are the driving test centre routes for Orkney, routes 1-5.
The Orkney driving test routes should be used for a guide only as test routes are for the discretion of the test examiner and may be subject to change.
Driving test routes incorporate the most challenging areas to drive in that particular location. Study the roads and the routes to establish which areas you will need practice on.
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Glossary:
- EOR – End of Road
- T/L – Traffic Lights
- DTC – Driving Test Centre
| Name of Practical Test Centre | Orkney (Kirkwall) |
|---|---|
| Type of Test Route | Car |
| Route Number | 1 |
| Name/Number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout left |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout right |
| Harbour St | Roundabout ahead |
| Cromwell Rd | 2 nd right |
| Mount Drive | EOR right |
| Weyland Drive | EOR left |
| East Rd | Right |
| Annfield Crescent | EOR left |
| Berstane Rd | 4 th right |
| Meadowbank / Thomas St | 5 th left |
| George St | End left |
| Bignold Park Rd | Right |
| Clay Loan / Union St | EOR left |
| Junction Road | Right |
| Wellington St | Right |
| Glaitness Rd | EOR right |
| Old Scapa Rd A964 to Orphir | Right |
| Bloomfield Rd | EOR right, EOR left |
| Wellington St | EOR right |
| Duncan Rd | 2 nd left |
| Pipersquoy Rd | Left, left, left |
| Laverock Rd | EOR right |
| Clay Loan | Left |
| Buttquoy Place | EOR left |
| Buttquoy Crescent | EOR right |
| Watergate | EOR left |
| Place Rd | EOR right |
| Broad St | Left |
| Castle St | Left |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 2 |
| Name/Number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | EOR left |
| Ayre Rd | 3 rd left |
| Sunnybank Rd | EOR right, right, EOR right, right |
| Crowness Crescent | EOR right |
| Grain Shore | EOR left |
| Ayre Rd | 2 x roundabout ahead |
| Harbour St / Shore St | Roundabout right |
| St. Catherines Pl | EOR right |
| Queen St / King St / School Place | EOR left |
| Dundas Crescent | 2 nd right |
| Clay Loan | 2 nd left |
| Earl Thorfinn St | EOR right |
| Holm Rd | EOR right |
| Holm Branch Rd | 3 rd right |
| Scapa Crescent | 2 nd left, right, EOR right |
| New Scapa Rd, Junction Rd | Roundabout left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Right |
| Great Western Rd | 2 nd right |
| West Castle St | EOR right |
| Broad St | Right |
| Victoria St | Right |
| Tankerness Lane | Roundabout right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Right |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 3 |
| Name/Number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | 2 nd left |
| Great Western Rd | Roundabout right |
| Ayre Rd | Roundabout right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout ahead, 3 rd left |
| Pipersquoy Rd | 2 nd left, left, left |
| Laverock Rd | EOR right |
| Clay Loan | EOR right |
| Bignold Park Rd | 2 nd left |
| Inganess Rd | 2 nd right |
| Single track | EOR left |
| A960 to airport | Left |
| Tankerness | Right |
| Jewellery | Right, EOR right, 4 th left |
| Easdale Loan | EOR right |
| Holm Rd | 2 nd left |
| Quoybanks Crescent | EOR left |
| Clay Loan | EOR right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout ahead, 2 nd right |
| Castle St | EOR right |
| Broad St | Right |
| Victoria St | Right |
| Tankerness Lane / North Tankerness Lane | EOR left |
| Great Western Rd | EOR right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Right |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 4 |
| Name/Number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout right |
| Junction Rd | Right |
| Wellington St / High St | Right |
| Chaitness Rd / Bloomfield | EOR left |
| Kirkwall | Right |
| Scapa Beach | EOR left, EOR left |
| Holm Branch Rd | 2 nd right |
| Scapa Crescent | 2 nd left, right, EOR right |
| New Scapa Rd | 2 nd right |
| Union St / Clay Loan | EOR left |
| Dundas Crescent | Right |
| George St | EOR right |
| Dundas Crescent | Right |
| Thomas St | 3 rd left |
| Slater St / Willow Rd / Willowburn Rd | EOR right |
| Berstane Rd / Queen St / School Place | EOR right |
| Palace Rd / Broad St | Left |
| Castle St | Right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout left |
| Ayre Rd | Roundabout ahead, right |
| Grainshore | 4 th left |
| Crowness Crescent | EOR left, EOR left |
| Ayre Rd | Right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 5 |
| Name/Number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout right |
| Junction Rd / New Scapa Rd / Holm Branch Rd | Left |
| Trade Park Rd | EOR left |
| Kirkwall | 3 rd right |
| George St | EOR right |
| Thomas St | EOR left |
| Meadowbank | 2 nd right |
| Reid Crescent | Left, right, EOR right |
| Meadows East Rd | 3 rd right |
| St Catherine’s Place | Roundabout left |
| Shore St / Harbour St | Roundabout ahead |
| Ayre Rd | Roundabout ahead, 2 nd right |
| Crowness Crescent | EOR right |
| Fin Stonn | EOR right |
| Glain Shore | EOR left |
| Ayre Rd | Roundabout right |
| Great Western Rd | 3 rd right |
| West Castle St | EOR right |
| Broad St | Bear left |
| Palace Rd | Right |
| Watergate | Left |
| Buttquoy Crescent | Right |
| Buttquoy Place | EOR right |
| Clay Loan / Union St | EOR right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout ahead, left |
| West Tankerness Lane | EOR left |
| Great Western Rd | EOR right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | |
| DTC |
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