The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) no longer publish taxi driving test routes for public viewing.
Detailed below are the taxi test routes for Birmingham Driving Test Centre. The taxi test routes are developed by examiners for those who wish to take the hackney carriage (black cab) or private hire taxi test.
The taxi test routes may have altered as this is down to the discretion of the examiner, or they may remain similar or possibly identical. Routes can also change on a daily basis due to road or traffic conditions. Test routes are for Birmingham, Shirley routes 1-5.
Use the test routes below to form a knowledge base for the various types of roads and traffic systems that you will encounter during the DVSA taxi test. Only use the routes as guidance for basing a representation of the types of roads and traffic systems to expect.
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Glossary:
- EOR – End of Road
- T/L – Traffic Lights
- TTC – Taxi Test Centre
| Name of Taxi Test Centre | Birmingham (Shirley) |
|---|---|
| Type of Test Route | Taxi |
| Name/ Number of Road | Direction |
| Taxi Test Route Number | 1 |
| TTC | Left |
| Union Rd | Right |
| Moreton Rd / Fieldon Close | Left |
| Moorlands Drive / Wayfield Rd | Right |
| Solihull Rd | Left |
| Stanway Rd / Welford Rd | Roundabout right |
| Stratford Rd | Roundabout right |
| Blackford Rd | Roundabout left |
| Dog Kennel Lane | Roundabout right |
| Stratford Rd | Roundabout left |
| Monkspath Hall Rd | Roundabout right |
| Thorton Rd | Left |
| Frankholmes Drive | Right |
| Monkspath Hall Rd | Roundabout right |
| Alderminster Rd | Right |
| Widney Lane | Roundabout right, T/L ahead |
| Longmore Rd | Roundabout left |
| Union Rd | Left |
| TTC | |
| Taxi Test Route Number | 2 |
| TTC | Left |
| Stratford Rd | Roundabout left |
| Marshall Lake Rd | Roundbaout right |
| Cranmore Rd | Left |
| Avon Rd | Right |
| Shakespeare Rd | Right |
| Avon Rd | Right |
| Conway Rd | Right |
| Clinton Rd | Left |
| Cranmore Rd | Right |
| Cranmore Boulevard | Left |
| Stratford Rd | Roundabout right, T/L right |
| Creynolds Lane / Vicarage Rd | Left |
| Salter St / Shutt Lane | Right |
| Valley Rd | Right |
| Lady Lane | Left |
| Tanworth Lane | Roundabout left |
| Blackford Rd | Roundabout left |
| Stratford Rd | T/L right |
| Solihull Rd | Right |
| Wayfield Rd / Moorlands Drive | Right |
| Fieldon Close / Moreton Rd | Right |
| Union Rd | Left |
| TTC | |
| Taxi Test Route Number | 3 |
| TTC | Left |
| Service Rd | Left |
| Union Rd | T/L ahead |
| School Rd | EOR left |
| Bills Lane | Left |
| Queens Ave | Right |
| Oberon Drive | EOR left |
| Shakespeare Drive | Roundabout left |
| Shottery Rd | EOR left |
| Shakespeare Drive | T/L right |
| Startford Rd | Roundabout right |
| Blackford Rd | Roundabout right |
| Tanworth Lane | Left |
| Watery Lane / Illshaw Heath Rd | Left |
| Kineton Lane | EOR left |
| Stratford Rd | Roundabout right |
| Monkspath Hall Rd | Left |
| Highlands Rd | Roundabout left |
| Cranmore Boulevard | Roundabout left |
| Widney Lane | T/L right |
| Blossomfield Rd | Left |
| Charles Rd | Roundabout left |
| Witherford Crescent | EOR left |
| Yoxall Rd | EOR left |
| Longmere Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| Union Rd | Right |
| TTC | |
| Taxi Test Route Number | 4 |
| TTC | Left |
| Union Rd | T/L ahead |
| School Rd | Left |
| Bills Lane | Left |
| Portia Ave | Left |
| Fabian Crescent | Left |
| Malcolm Rd | Right |
| Fabian Crescent | Left |
| Shottery Rd | EOR right |
| Shakespeare Drive | Roundabout left |
| Bills Lane | Right |
| Burman Rd | EOR left |
| Haslucks Green Rd / Tilehouse Lane | Left |
| Dickens Heath Rd | Right |
| Cleobury Lane | EOR right |
| Lady Lane | Left |
| Shutt Lane / Salter St | Right |
| Vicarage Rd / Creynolds Lane | Left |
| Statford Rd | Roundabout right |
| Monkspath Hall Rd | Left |
| Highlands Rd | Roundabout left |
| Cranmore Boulevard | Left |
| Widney Lane | T/L ahead |
| Longmere Rd | Left |
| Union Rd | Left |
| TTC | |
| Taxi Test Route Number | 5 |
| TTC | Right |
| Service Rd | Left |
| Stratford Rd | Roundabout right |
| Dog Kennel Lane | Roundabout left |
| Tanworth Lane | Right |
| Lady Lane | Right |
| Norton Lane | Right |
| Rumbush Lane | Left |
| Cleobury Lane | Left |
| Dickens Heath Lane / Lowbrook Lane | Right |
| Norton Lane | Right |
| Lea Green Lane / Hollybrook Lane | Roundabout right |
| Truemans Heath Lane | Right |
| Haslucks Green Rd | EOR left |
| Bills Lane | Left |
| Neville Rd | Right |
| Loxley Ave | EOR right |
| Burman Rd | Left |
| Shakespeare Drive | Right |
| Oberion Drive | Right |
| Antony Rd | EOR right |
| Oberion Drive | EOR right |
| Queens Ave | Roundabout left |
| Shakespeare Drive | EOR left, T/L ahead |
| Stratford Rd | T/L right |
| Union Rd | Right |
| TTC |