A2 westbound slip road at Marling Cross shut overnight for roadworks

An overnight closure is under way on the A2 westbound exit slip road at Marling Cross, a minor junction sitting between the M2/A289 interchange and the A227, according to the estate's monitoring trigger. The closure began this evening and is scheduled to remain in place until 6am tomorrow, with construction given as the reason. Drivers planning to leave the A2 westbound at this exit overnight should expect to be unable to do so and will need to continue to the next available junction. Mason's ledger flagged the closure through National Highways' road closure reporting service, which publishes advance notice of planned full closures on England's motorways and major A roads. However, when that same source was queried directly for details matching this closure, it returned no results: "Sorry, there were no results found that matched your criteria. Please try again," according to [1]. This is a discrepancy worth noting plainly. The trigger that prompted this report states the closure is active now, but the reference database that is meant to confirm and detail such closures — including its full scheme information and traffic management arrangements — currently shows nothing under this closure. National Highways' own service notes that closures are generally listed by start date and updated twice daily on weekdays, and that the information "is correct at the time of publication, but is subject to change at short notice," according to [1]. It's possible the record has simply not yet propagated into the search tool, or that the filter search used didn't match the entry; either way, the independent confirmation that would normally accompany a closure of this kind is not available at the time of writing. National Highways also cautions that its published schedules become less reliable the further ahead they are checked, and that the service is provided "as is" without a guarantee of accuracy, according to [1]. That caveat applies to forward planning rather than to closures already under way, which is the case here — but it underlines that the single source available tonight is the trigger itself, not a corroborating detail page. No information is available on which specific carriageway signage, diversion route, or contractor is managing the works, nor on why the closure search returned empty. Nothing in the material confirms whether this is a recurring nightly closure or a one-off, nor the reason for the construction beyond that stated. If you are approaching Marling Cross on the A2 westbound between the M2/A289 and the A227 before 6am tomorrow, plan to bypass this exit; the on-slip/off-slip status and any diversion signage will be as posted on site, since the online detail page could not be independently verified this evening. What to watch: whether National Highways' closure database updates with a matching entry and full scheme detail before the 6am reopening, and whether the closure lifts on schedule.