Warning as a series of slow-moving 'abnormal loads' will delay motorists using the Dartford Crossing.

Three transformers are being moved overnight from Littlebrook Power Station to Thamesport on the Isle of Grain.

They will be moved tomorrow evening (June 4), Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 24.

While the loads are at the crossing, traffic will be temporarily held for up to 30 minutes.
Each weekend, the load is expected to reach Dartford at around 9pm, subject to traffic conditions. Normal conditions at the Crossing should be resumed by 9.30pm.

The loads are too heavy to use the A206 Cotton Lane bridge over the A282 at junction 1a and therefore will need to use parts of the A282 and its crossovers to travel from the west side of the junction to the east side.

The loads will enter the northbound A282 against the flow of traffic, via the northbound exit slip road.

They will travel northbound before then using the crossover from the northbound carriageway to the southbound, usually used when the tunnel is used for southbound traffic. The load will then exit the A282 at junction 1a using the southbound exit slip road.

Highways England provides live traffic information via its website www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information.