Barrow In Furness driving test centre
Trinity Enterprise Centre, Unit 11 Ironworks Road, Barrow-In-Furness, LA14 2PN
Drive the 5 routes around Barrow In Furness before test day →
Key facts
- Barrow In Furness's pass rate was 69.6% in 2025/26 from 1,699 tests, 19.6 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 1 of 31 centres in North West (North West average 49.0%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 20.6 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 10.9 points, from 58.7% to 69.6%.
- Male candidates passed at 71.2% and female candidates at 68.1%, a gap of 3.1 points.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 4.4 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 10.4 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 13.1 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 8.7 weeks.
Barrow has the highest car test pass rate of any centre in the North West, and it is not a small centre propped up by one lucky year. Well over a thousand tests a year go through the unit on Ironworks Road, and the rate has climbed steadily over the past five years rather than jumping about. The town explains some of it. Barrow sits at the end of a peninsula, so through traffic barely exists, and there is no A-road and no dual carriageway anywhere on the practice loops on this page. Nine tenths of the driving is at 30 mph. What you get instead of speed is junctions: traffic lights, pedestrian crossings and give-way lines packed closer together than in most towns this size.
Drive the Barrow In Furness test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 51 km in all, with 15 roundabouts and 128 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Barrow In Furness; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Barrow In Furness from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 51 km · 128 marked turns
- Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
- Street View tour of each route
- Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
- The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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- Route 1 · via Abbey Road8.6 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 15 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Devonshire Road.8.6 km · 27 turns · 4 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Promenade9.3 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 14 right turns, 14 left turns and a stretch of Ironworks Road.9.3 km · 31 turns · 3 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Promenade12.8 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 16 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Walney Road.12.8 km · 28 turns · 3 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Walney Road9.6 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Hindpool Road.9.6 km · 18 turns · 4 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Promenade11.1 km loop with 1 roundabout, 15 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of North Scale.11.1 km · 24 turns · 1 roundabout
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
The practice loops on this page cover 51.3 km and carry 24 sets of traffic signals, 22 signalled pedestrian crossings and 18 zebra crossings. For a town this size that is a great deal of stopping and starting, and it is the thing that shapes a Barrow test. Add 29 give-way junctions and the drive becomes a sequence of decisions with very little open road between them.
Speeds are simple. Ninety per cent of the loop length is 30 mph and the rest is 20, with only a handful of traffic calming features. There is no A-road and no dual carriageway. You will not be asked to judge a gap at speed here, which is why the marks tend to fall on observation and positioning instead.
Roundabouts are scarce and none of them is a mini-roundabout. The named ones sit on Devonshire Road, Hindpool Road, North Road and Schneider Road, plus Ramsden Square. The longest loop runs 12.8 km along Walney Road with three roundabouts and sixteen right turns. The shortest, 8.6 km, takes in Devonshire Road and four roundabouts.
Two things are specific to Barrow. Four level crossings sit on the loops, so a barrier coming down mid-test is a real possibility, and the only right answer is a calm stop well back from it. And 28 schools sit in the area around the centre, which turns Ironworks Road, Hindpool Road and the streets off them into slow, parked-up work in the middle of the afternoon.
Pass rate at Barrow In Furness, 2007/08 to 2025/26
Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.
Month by month, 2025/26
By year and gender
| Year | Tests | Pass rate | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 1,699 | 69.6% | 71.2% | 68.1% |
| 2024/25 | 1,735 | 61.9% | 62.9% | 60.7% |
| 2023/24 | 1,796 | 66.3% | 67.3% | 65.1% |
| 2022/23 | 1,929 | 64.8% | 68.0% | 61.5% |
| 2021/22 | 1,958 | 58.7% | 61.0% | 56.6% |
| 2020/21 | 598 | 64.4% | 69.9% | 59.5% |
| 2019/20 | 1,888 | 56.4% | 60.6% | 52.4% |
| 2018/19 | 1,899 | 54.1% | 58.0% | 50.8% |
North West average 49% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Barrow In Furness
Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.
| Month | Median wait | Weeks to free slots | Slots offered | Still free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 4.4 | 10.4 | 51 | 2.6% |
| Jul 2026 | 4.4 | 8.5 | 65 | 3% |
| Jun 2026 | 3.7 | 5.8 | 63 | 0.7% |
| May 2026 | 4.6 | 12 | 77 | 1.7% |
| Apr 2026 | 7.7 | 15 | 45 | 8.6% |
| Mar 2026 | 4.9 | 23 | 70 | 5.1% |
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Test day at Barrow In Furness
The centre is Unit 11 at the Trinity Enterprise Centre on Ironworks Road, north of the town centre near the docks. Managed workspaces like this one hold dozens of businesses behind a single entrance, so look for the unit number rather than a sign with DVSA on it. Barrow-in-Furness station is about a kilometre away, which makes this one of the easier centres in Cumbria to reach without a car.
DVSA publishes that you can access this centre if you use a wheelchair. Nothing is published about candidate parking or a waiting room, and that is normal for a unit on an enterprise park. Treat parking as shared with the other tenants rather than set aside for tests, arrive with a few minutes in hand, and let your instructor pick the space.
Three kinds of test run here: car, motorcycle module 2 on the road, and ADI part 3. Booking, moving and cancelling is done only through GOV.UK. Waits have been short lately by national standards, and they have come down over the past year rather than up, so a cancellation slot is a realistic thing to watch for.
What DVSA publishes about Barrow In Furness
Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.
- Tests conducted here
- carmotorcycle module 2 (on-road)ADI part 3
- Wheelchair access
- DVSA states you can access this centre in a wheelchair.
Other tests at Barrow In Furness
This centre is not car only. DVSA publishes results for these categories separately, and they are taken by different candidates on different vehicles, so the rates are not comparable with the car figure above.
Learner reports from Barrow In Furness
No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.
What examiners mark most often
DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Barrow In Furness.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Trinity Enterprise Centre, Unit 11 Ironworks RoadBarrow-In-Furness LA14 2PN
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Barrow In Furness
- Is Barrow In Furness an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 69.6% of car tests were passed there in 2025/26, against 50.0% nationally. Pass rates reflect the local roads and who takes tests there as much as the examiners, so treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
- How long is the wait for a driving test at Barrow In Furness?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Barrow In Furness was 4.4 weeks, and you had to look about 10.4 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
- Where is Barrow In Furness driving test centre?
- Barrow In Furness test centre is at Trinity Enterprise Centre, Unit 11 Ironworks Road, Barrow-In-Furness, LA14 2PN. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
- How many driving tests does Barrow In Furness do a year?
- 1,699 car tests were conducted at Barrow In Furness in 2025/26, of which 1,183 were passed.
Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.
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