"That's not a bus, That's a lorry, don't think your supposed to be here... Good Luck!" hahaha

@cirian75

2 ай бұрын

suspect he'll be getting a ticket for that.

@BethzeidaJohnson

2 ай бұрын

The sat nav told the driver its OK

@TheTezz100

2 ай бұрын

😄 love John's puns & funny thing's he comes out with, in part's of his video. But kinda realy funny when random things like this dose the job for him😄

@33andy33gmail

2 ай бұрын

“Don’t you know how hard our job is, delivering food to millions of families? People need to stop criticising us”

@dwaynealexander9413

2 ай бұрын

i also found it funny it had L plates and was foreign. That's some messed up driving lesson haha!

Thank you John for visiting Luton so that we don't have to. Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated.

John getting "photobombed" by a truck that should not be travelling along the guided bus-way was very funny.

Ah, Dunstable - my home for the first 18 years of my life. The great thing about living in a town next to Luton is no matter how shit your town becomes, it still isn't Luton.

@xr6lad

2 ай бұрын

Dunstable became a hole a long time ago.

@josephmarch6850

Ай бұрын

I live in dunstable myself. Nice to see my hometown featured

Bro's hatred for Luton warms my heart.

@Sustainable_Engineer

2 ай бұрын

What's wrong with Luton?

@robturner3065

2 ай бұрын

@@Sustainable_Engineer 🤣

@theyarenthere

2 ай бұрын

​@@Sustainable_Engineerhas been voted the worst town in the UK for at least the last 5 years, local residents describe it as a "nothing town"

@ChickenNugget-dk9hp

2 ай бұрын

Everything@@Sustainable_Engineer

@gavincampbell2862

2 ай бұрын

@@Sustainable_Engineer what is right with it?

This channel is turning into a fascinating tour of parts of the UK. Really superb.

@antonycharnock2993

2 ай бұрын

Parts of the UK other channels don't reach. For a reason.

@andyrbush

2 ай бұрын

@@antonycharnock2993 what do you mean?

04:44 a great example of Norman solar panel installation.

@David_Crayford

2 ай бұрын

Well done, Norman!

The airport 🛫: The easiest way to get away as quickly as possible 🤭🤣, poor Luton 😣🤭😅😂🤣

@buddy19134

2 ай бұрын

and yet totaly deserved.

@GaryB007

2 ай бұрын

I lived there for 10 years - he's spot on 🙂

@molegripeu

2 ай бұрын

Plus it's got 3 train stations and 3 motorway junctions, it's a great place to go somewhere else from

@pauldevenish

2 ай бұрын

I did have to laugh at that

A lorry going down a bus lane. Happens every day.

@jfv65

2 ай бұрын

Funny. I suppose some clevet sneaky truckers discovered that it is a faster route?

@robturner3065

2 ай бұрын

That's not a bus, it's a Romanian....

@brianartillery

2 ай бұрын

I saw another truck of the same company make a complete mucking fuddle of a roundabout a few months back. Their staff are obviously highly trained.

@simocreations

2 ай бұрын

Can’t find this?

@NotALot-xm6gz

2 ай бұрын

If the truck is full of illegals, does that make it a bus?

i like this and have pressed the button specifically for this.

Sad that Lorraine Chase wasn't given a mention. She has to be the most important chapter in the history of Luton Airport.

@whyyoulidl

2 ай бұрын

Cinzano?

@stephenwhite345

2 ай бұрын

You could be wafted in from paradise to luton airport if you're unlucky

@IN_THIS_DAY_AND_AGE

2 ай бұрын

​@@whyyoulidl Campari

@Phuc_Yhou

2 ай бұрын

And The Cat's Luton Airport single reaching the giddy heights of number 22 in the UK charts 😉

@Calum_S

2 ай бұрын

​@stephenwhite345 🤣🤣

One should not forget that the driver of the train involved in the robbery was badly injured and never made a full recovery.

@davidjohnson00001

2 ай бұрын

In fact, he died from his injuries.

@EdwardKane-pb5rj

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for mentioning this. Folk heroes or f***ing scum who coshed a bloke going about his job ultimately causing his death? It'll probably have to be the former because the reality doesn't make for cosy Phil Collins films or fit with rebellious sneering punks....

@garethaethwy

2 ай бұрын

The train driver was one of the people that they never actually caught...

@davidcronan8698

2 ай бұрын

I meant the actual BR train driver, not the one who drove the train for the robbers. @@garethaethwy

@garethaethwy

2 ай бұрын

@@davidcronan8698 yes, I know, my comment may not have been quite as clear as I thought it was when typing, sorry x

Episode 10 and it still jars me when he ends with "See you next time for another Great British Road Journey" For Some reason, I still always expect "for another exciting episode of secrets of the motorways" ... I wonder how many times Jon has accidentally almost said the wrong outro out of habit so far 🤔

6:14 And was the second of many examples of _Doctor Who_ using a quarry to represent another planet! _(The Macra Terror,_ 1967)

I’m still bemused by how much I enjoy this channel. I waste every minute watching this and enjoy every one of them. So weird. Well done John, you could sell onions to the French.

That plane intro and the sound hitting the microphone at the perfect moment must have taken a lot of setting up

@jonh6585

2 ай бұрын

I was going to comment that it was greatest set up since James Burke launched that rocket in Connections

@fwstrust2844

2 ай бұрын

@@jonh6585was about to write the same.

@RichTapestry

2 ай бұрын

Tom Scott level timing

@stephenwhite345

2 ай бұрын

It was done in the studio

Pretty cool that Dunstable decided to reuse their old railway not only for passenger use but for freight too. The enthusiasts will love that no doubt.

I’m most impressed with your expanded budget, allowing you to charter aircraft to appear as directed in your videos - well that, or you have a LOT of patience! Amazing content as always, I used the button specifically to show my appreciation for it thank you.

@melondasher

2 ай бұрын

(you can also use certain websites to track the flights and just time it properly! :D )

@haggielady

2 ай бұрын

When has a flight ever taken off at the stated time, especially from Luton?

Great episode John! The depth of subtle dry humour peppered with full-on sarcasm and combined with excellent, well presented information is an absolute winner. The top notch editing, visuals and comedic timing make this a must-watch, like and subscribe edition to any UK motoring YT enjoyer.

The Rules of Luton was an episode of Space1999 (1976). This exotic planet being named after Luton because the imported American producer/writer (Fred Freiberger) saw the name on a road sign. A choice much to the amusement of series creator Gerry Anderson and the rest of the crew.

These videos get better and better. The humour is fantastic. 😂

Oh, the memories! Worked for EDS in Luton from 97 until 2002 before transferring to Milton Keynes then central London. Luton is absolutely a shithole. We used to joke that the best things about it were the M1, railway and airport as they let you get far away quickly! Thanks for confirming that John 😅

Luton Airport - should be a nightmare for me but wasn’t. I left my car n the car park,last October. The car park burnt down with my car. I received a brilliant insurance payout got a great new car!

Bro you are the perfect example of English humour. Love these videos and by far the funniest creator on this platform. Thank you

Saturday Night beneath The Plastic palm Trees?

@davidchristopher9475

2 ай бұрын

Dancing to the rhythm of the guns of navarone

As I discovered about Luton two years ago when i had to stay there for the few nights, you can get a train out of the place at 3am. So there’s a positive. Escape is easy.

Born and live in Luton and I can say it's not as bad as you think. Its worse. Though I've never been threatened on the streets in Luton. Can't say the same for Liverpool, though...

Market Crosses are generally taken as the centre of a town or village from which distances to and from are measured. The market was held around them and often in a market hall close by for auction of produce other than livestock. Always/were a few pubs close by.

I moved to Leighton Buzzard about 12 years and I can safely say, you were far too complimentary about the hole's known as Luton, Dunstable and (to an extent) Leighton! And they say it's grim up 'Norf... As for the proposal at 5:52. Please don't. On a lighter not... In the drone shot of Leighton Buzzard, I saw my home! If I'd have known you were there, I would pestered you for some loose change.

you made me laugh just talking about the A505. Nice!

Definitely morphing into train shenanigans Jon.

Wicked, sweet, awesome.

Loving the dry humour brilliant lol😂

“We are still in Bedfordshire, and as if that wasn’t bad enough we start in Luton”😂 Blimey, going for a punch in the guts and the Jugular in one sentence mate!

A few years ago Luton decided it wanted to split away from Bedfordshire and become its own county. We wern't sorry to see it go...

I am guessing this series could go on forever. ....most excellent!

I've been for a "fish and chip ride" on the Leighton Buzzard narrow gauge railway. Quite surreal sitting on a little train with open carriages scoffing fish and chips whilst trundling through housing estates, then you stop whilst someone opens a gate across the track and tootle off in to the coutry side.

timing your intro to a plane landing.... oh Jon, you magnificent wizard

Your Saab is basically a fancy Vauxhall Vectra thanks to General motors buying out Saab all those years ago

@dartskipper3170

2 ай бұрын

General Motors wanted the SAAB 2.0 litre diesel engine because their own 2.2 litre lump didn't attract favourable tax benefits for business drivers.

lovely flashback to my long-missed grandfather's house on Vandyke Rd, near the crossing - thanks John

20 seconds in and already smirking with the emphasis on "Luton" when describing where you are starting.

The Sugar Loaf Hotel used to have a massive sugar loaf on it's porch roof up until recently. I can remember flying to Tunisia in the early 1980's from Luton when it very basic and not much more that a large shed. We flew with the long gone Monarch Airways and my mother's claim to fame is that she sat next to Pete Murray who at the time was a famous Radio 2 DJ. We as children never got over this and even to this day at the age of 91 my mother still goes on about it! Dunstable is not that bad as old things go, famous for the priory and it's many hidden old buildings. It was a marching post for Roman soldiers travelling from St Alban's (Verulanium) to Towcester (Lactodurum) via Dunstable (Durocobrivae). Alas the A5 is now been downgraded to the A505 & A5183 due to the new M1 link road that goes past a horrible new estate. There does appear to a quarry theme going on in that area as you have Sandy, Woburn Sands, Little and Great Brickhill, etc.

@sandycheeks7865

2 ай бұрын

Yes, a big white hat. I wonder why, after 30-40 years they got rid of it.

@alantheskinhead

2 ай бұрын

I suspect it needed replacing. But how do you nip out and buy a wooden sugar loaf?!

The feature on the Leighton Buzzard railway reminded me of when I travelled on it about 30 years ago. The journey is not especially interesting and the only thing to do at the end is to stay on the train and wait for it to come back to where you got on. Before we departed, a posh-talking middle-aged man with a monacle turned up with a guy in a chauffeur's uniform. The middle-aged guy asked staff members quite a few questions about the railway but, when asked to buy a ticket, said that he hadn't got time and the pair went back to the car park. I did wonder at the time whether it was just a couple of friends having a laugh but I never found out.

6:00 I didn't know that that line still did freight services.

As a previous resident of Dunstable for many years, I can tell you that bus way is fantastic. You can save half the time going from Dunstable to Luton station, all the better to get on a train and go very very far away, as quickly a possible!

Was through there in 1964!

"...two of the most boring things ever, so let's not bother with that." Classic Shenanigans.

yayy finally my town! i know we're all secretly excited waiting until he visits our towns on the road journey!!

There's a guided busway in Leigh, Lancashire, and anything other than a bus going down it gets a fine courtesy of His Majesty's Post

Back in the 60s the football club Luton Town was so ridiculed that Luton became synonymous with Old Kent Road on the Monopoly board. Old Kent Road is fast becoming trendy, whereas Luton...

2:13 Sir, either you read your comments or you appreciate history. I doff my bowler to you. Kudos.

@JonosBtheMC

2 ай бұрын

Seriously, you made a bloody good point. How times have changed...

That truckdriver may well be in a lot of trouble. I'm surprised he managed to steer the vehicle between the tracks - the buses have little buffer wheels on the front sticking out either side for controlling the steering. The driver can sit back and just control the pedals.

Now in my 5th decade in LU7, as always, informative and humorous, thanks. Fun fact: in a sort of "selling fridges to Eskimos" way, some of the better/right quality sand is exported to the Middle East for use in desalination plants - something to do eith grain size & shape. Not a lorra people know that. Keep up the good work, John!

Now this *was* a very interesting and informative episode of Great British Road Journeys. Airfields are always of interest to me but the quarries out did Luton Airport this week. Writing of Luton Airport, has anyone ever checked in at the Smith Air desk at Luton Airport?

@MrJohnRWells

2 ай бұрын

It is trivially easy for a quarry to outdo Luton Airport.

Dunstable Priory, a fine example of Norman architecture, complete with solar panels?! Who knew the Normans were so advanced!!

What's the odd of that you catching a truck on the guided bus route 😂 pure gold

It just gets better and better.

STOP EVERYTHING ANOTHER EPISODE! - Me, a Canadian living in Australia 😅

@sarkybugger5009

2 ай бұрын

That's almost English. 👍

@brettadams6734

2 ай бұрын

@@sarkybugger5009 English with extra steps

What a great heist. And what a photobombing of an illegal lorry passage from busway :d.

£2.6M - 0.4M = I bet there were a lot of happy coppers retiring early from those raids.

Fair play; I grew up in Leighton Buzzard and now live in Luton (I know...) and you covered pretty much everything interesting in the area 👍🏻

Thanks

Glad you got the drone fixed John

A market cross (or mercat cross as they're called in Scotland), is a structure used to mark a market square in towns, where a regular market or fair was held.

This is the best video I've ever seen about anything

Interesting to see that earlier test facility. I used to be at Millbrook working quite a bit in the 1980's and 90's. Didn't realise that GM had another test set up before it

Ah! Luton, Campari and lemonade. “Were you truly wafted here from paradise.” “No! Luton Airport” “ Nice colour ain’t it” words spoken by Loraine Chase. Oh and nice wicked, sweet ending at Leighton Buzzard on the LB Narrow Gauge Railway

That road toward Someries castle is a bone jerker…

The best stand up comic on TV ……. ooops …….. on KZread. 👏👏👍😀

When you were standing by the chalk quarry, you were only about 100 metres from my house. You should have popped in for a cuppa.

The incline ramp is used at Millbrook to prove engine oil pump performance up steep hills. They have similar at rbsl in Telford and at the military vehicle test ranges at Bovington

That lorry driver must be as mad as a Hatter(s way)....

Great feature Jon I love the energy and research you put in. Well worth it. Keep them coming

@AutoShenanigans

2 ай бұрын

Nice one, thanks for watching!

Hi mate. Come to Bedford town to check out New Turbo Roundabout Bedford council built few years ago. It’s one of its kind in the Whole of UK.

In Dunstable there was a pub called the Norman King right next to the Priory. Built in 1107, it was still in use until 2006 when it was burned down by arsonists and the ruins were demolished. The sign is in Priory House I believe.

@stuartajc8141

2 ай бұрын

I used to work in Dunstable, until about 2010, and the Norman King was our local. I don't remember it burning down, and on checking, it was burned down in 2011, after we moved to Luton. So my memory isn't as bad as I thought 🙃

How interesting. Fwicked. Sweet. Awesome.

Happy Easter 🧲👍⚓️

@Dan23_7

2 ай бұрын

Magnet wanker ? 😂

This series keeps on giving, awesome research and script writing and sharp editing makes it all perfect.

The ramp was probably used for washing the underside of vehicles .

Years ago you could board a bus in Luton and end up in Hillingdon (Uxbridge tube station).

I must say John, your ability to turn the mundane into the actually rather interesting is quite remarkable. Even Luton sort of sounds intriguing, if only because one really would be amazed if we’re as truly awful as you say. I mean, Leighton Buzzard is hardly culture capital of the world. Even Stevenage sounds more appealing than Luton, not because of it being less awful but I suspect you have more chance of escaping Stevenage unharmed 🤔 That railway looks an interesting one though, so maybe there actually IS reason to go to LB after all? Whouda thunk it? 🤷🏻‍♂️👍🍀

Great video. Back in the late nineties I was a delivery driver in the Leighton Buzzard area for a while. Used to always deliver cases of wine to one B. Monkhouse. Never met him though.

@andrewmurray5542

2 ай бұрын

I think Monkhouse lived in Eggington, not far out of Leighton Buzzard. I was told the house was called 'Claridges'. That's what I heard, anyway.

@gphunk1995

2 ай бұрын

@@andrewmurray5542 that rings a below. A really nice old beamed place it was.

In the 1990s, if you were between the age of 15 - 35, the Sugar Loaf was by far the best pub in Dunstable. It had 2 seperate bars - a top bar for the oldies (still there) and a bottom bar which was a big island in the middle, run by a bunch of Aussies. Being a circle you tended not to lose the people you came with and easily spot those you didn't. Remember, no internet or mobile phones. You'd drink Stella Artois, Hooper's Hooch or Metz before it was considered naff, listen to very loud Britpop and get turfed out at 11.30 and go around the corner to Ritzy's which took up the entire top floor of the crappy Quadrant shopping centre. It was dark, sticky but very very popular - I knew people who would come from Watford, St Albans, Aylesbury, etc to go there. Total dump but good at what it did. The relief of getting past the bouncers and ascending the mirrored staircase to the bar meant you were in for another 2-3 hours of boozing. Oh, and the California Ballroom on the ascent to Dunstable Downs might have been worth a historical mention.

You had me at ‘This week we’re still in Bedfordshire, and if that wasn’t bad enough…’

Woo! My hometown on a Shenanigans video! Leighton Buzzard is so much better now than it was even 20 years ago.

@JimChampion

2 ай бұрын

At last the Great British Road Journeys have reached somewhere that I have (had?) a connection with. Family came from in and around Leighton Buzzard and my great aunt and uncle lived on Vandyke Road, with the narrow gauge railway opposite. All I can really remember (this was the 1980s) was that Leighton Buzzard had a Waitrose and a bakers called Geo. Ort. And then a Tesco opened. That’s it.

@JimChampion

2 ай бұрын

Just googled it, and Geo. Ort was so successful in Leighton B that he expanded into Dunstable.

Lots of places I recognise there. Looks better from up in the air than down on the ground.

3:15 - "a millionth of an inch" - oh dear, no! Fine measured to a Mil, which is a thousandth of an inch.

Another great video John, I love these interesting videos All the best Bob

Great video John, amazing as always, what the beep was that lorry ever doing 😳😀👍

I just love this channel so much

Very educational and informative thank you John

Another awesome video, thanks Jon 😊

Brilliant video

Another great video!

8:30 They must have got the idea from the episode of HeartBeat where almost exactly the same thing happened 😜

Been catching up with your series over the past few weeks. Been fun, Thanks!

John getting mildly surprised by an unexpected vehicle - reminds me of the red car (a Vauxhall Astra maybe?) which parked right behind him a while back. Good video though John, much appreciated your work 👍.

Brilliant again

Awesome Video

This is one of your best videos so far! Kudos to you! Always a pleasure to watch your videos.