Every Sunday, John checks in on me, asks how my week was, tells me some interesting things about the motorways, wishes me a good week, and leaves with a nice drone shot. I feel loved

"Up next is the...WT* is that? Is that a junction?" Best one liner since the M57 "Junction 6 exists". A joy to watch, Jon. Great work

@Eledore

Жыл бұрын

! indeed. He comes up with real quality British lines and statements..

My addiction to this series has driven me to go and get coffee and watch it in my car rather than watch it at home where I can feel my Mrs judging me.

@robertmoss279

4 ай бұрын

Same here, but I take a Horlicks with me, why? Because I can be asleep before she comes to bed 🤣

Our first tv in the 1950s was a Ferranti. When my dad told the 5year old me this, I got upset because I thought he meant my auntie was going to keep it...think about it...

@dave_h_8742

Жыл бұрын

😂

@fredyellowsnow7492

Жыл бұрын

Don't give up the day job. Yer coat's on the bush outside.

@Lily_The_Pink972

Жыл бұрын

@@fredyellowsnow7492 🤣🤣🤣

I love this series. John does a great job keeping his audience engaged in essentially what boils down to; "Well you see, the government thought we needed a bunch of new roads and motorways in (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, ect. ect.) so they either completely strangled the historic landmarks and structures in the way or just demolished them outright. Out of the proposed 1000 new motorways, 2 would actually be built, with 2 others left half-complete until the sun burns out.

@antonycharnock2993

Жыл бұрын

Or until the Vogon destructor fleet demolishes the Earth to make way for a Hyperspace bypass.

Computers! I didn't think Jon could top his previous Secrets of The Motorway series episodes... but then we get a Ferranti story! Awesome work!

The Ferranti Mark 1 - a tidied up and commercial version of the Manchester Mk1 - As designed by a load of people who "just turned up" knowing more about computers than was possible having just been released from essential war work they couldn't talk about Also Tim Bereners-Lee's parents met whilst working on the Ferranti Mk1

@AutoShenanigans

Жыл бұрын

I hope that's all true!! Great stuff.

The Coronation Street theme is really called "Lancashire Blues" by Eric Spears... thought I'd drop that in... you're welcome!

Just binge watched the whole of the northern motorways and they are fantastic. Surely the best show on the Internet? I now want to drive my Princess over the lot and cause a nostalgic traffic jam with a vintage breakdown.

The northern stretch of the M60 is only named as such so that Manchester can claim to have a complete orbital like London. Uppity buggers. I still call it the M62.

@DisleyDavid

Ай бұрын

You mean unlike London. The M25 has a gap.

Looked at the thumbnail and thought wow the UK has a diverging diamond interchange. Then was brought back to down to reality to discover it's just another standard UK style fudge. Standard 😂

@alangknowles

Жыл бұрын

Bet some planner saved money on a bridge or two. Looks OK on plan.

Why hasn’t itv or BBC got in touch with you? This series and all your other videos (Britains abandoned roads etc) are worthy of a TV series. Brilliant stuff John. Looking forward to another exciting episode of Secrets of the Motorway.

Best line ever, “the last junction on the M60 or it would be if it wasn’t a circle and it never bloody ends”

I live in Stockport and I'm nearly 50 and I'd like to say I'm approaching a point in my life where I'm starting to be comfortable with the motorway junctions here. They're all insane. It's definitely advanced class.

junction 26 reminds me of the Scalextric crossover track

Damn, I was hoping to experience a full 10 minutes of John talking about the MEC ;p

@RoelAdriaans

Жыл бұрын

I could understand all of those words! :)

Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good Easter?

That crazy junction also results in the motorway being restricted to 50mph as it bends under the various flyovers.

Hahaha love the turbo encabulator cameo.

@mikeprior-jones7779

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that side fumbling was effectively avoided!

During construction around Redrock a digger 'accidentally' hit the Tiviot Dale railway tunnel under the church, securing it's fate. There was also a spectacular viaduct paralleling the motorway across near Portwood roundabout that got flattened and the junction was added

@jakec4420

Жыл бұрын

Martin zero did a good video on the tunnel showing it underneath the church👍🏻

@MartinvonBargen

Жыл бұрын

Was once 'lucky' enough to see something similar happen to a Georgian dwelling in the centre of Liverpool when a fella reversed his wagon into the backend. I mean reversed it like he was filming a scene for The A Team. The soft c**t admitted to it by shouting down his early 2000s Nokia, telling his boss that he'd taken out the place he'd been asked to, and where should he drop the wagon off. Twat. 🤬🤬

@dvyt433

Жыл бұрын

Securing what fate? I've been in the church recently and it's still there

@Mitch-Hendren

Жыл бұрын

The church is still there but the railway in the remains of the tunnel underneath it isn't.

@HandymanRomileyIsBetterThanBnQ

Жыл бұрын

@@dvyt433 the Tiviot dale line

Loving this series, deserves a terrestrial TV slot! That 100k is approaching fast too, well deserved.

@AutoShenanigans

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!

@adrianthoroughgood1191

Жыл бұрын

I think there has already been a secrets of the motorway TV series.

I just hope more people notice the colourful lanes on the Simister Island roundabout - even today I watched a huge pile of Renault get it wrong and desperately squeeze themselves back in to 'stay on the M60'

Manchester still confuses me, I first went up that way, driving professionally, before most of the motorways had been built. Every time I went back another bit of motorway had been added, then they started renumbering them just to add further confusion. I'm semi retired now, and full retirement will be soon, so I don't have to worry about any more changes confusing me around Manchester! Oh, nice vid by the way!

@hublanderuk

Жыл бұрын

Better idea go to Manchester by train then you can miss the lot out. Just don't go when Man Utd are at home since all the trains are full of Man Utd fans heading to Manchester. 🤣

@stevecarter8810

Жыл бұрын

Used to visit my gran in greater Manchester in the 1970s and early 80s. Now I have next to no hope of ever stumbling across one of the old routes across the tops.

@JP_TaVeryMuch

Жыл бұрын

Oh I know, I know. And they don't arf talk funny too up there as well.

@justaguycalledjosh

Жыл бұрын

You'll be fine so long as you don't need the trams or the buses. Cause they NEVER stay the same in the first place.

@Sarge084

Жыл бұрын

@@hublanderuk Where on the train do I put the 26 tonnes of goods I'm delivering!

Credit where credit is due for the sheer amount of effort in visiting all those cold and windy locations for a few seconds footage each time!

The lion cub gets held aloft, signalling to all theIR eventual new king. And, after a moment of silence, the lion cub starts to speak: "Y'alright our kid?" IT'S THE CIIIIIIRCLE OF MAAAAAANCHESTER!

Great week, thank you, Jon. Hoping yours has been also. It seems to have stopped raining in Southern California, so less slipping on our slippery slip roads where the SR-94 flies over the SR-125 as it hauls up to the I-8 ... you do it so much better.

@highvoltageswitcher6256

Жыл бұрын

Manchester England having less rain than California just seem wrong somehow.😊

@donalddodson7365

Жыл бұрын

@@highvoltageswitcher6256 Maybe the Poles have shifted and nobody told us? 🤯😳😎

@chriswalford4161

Жыл бұрын

@@donalddodson7365; after Brexit, quite a few have returned home…😕

3:19 - I counted the arches...there are 16. Now I must go...my left arm appears to have fallen off. ☮

You mentioned the rediculous slip lane into lane 3, well done. Twas a bit of a surprise the first time I experienced it.

And who would have thought that we have mention of the Retro Encabulator on one oh Johns videos! Truly comedic timing!

@AutoShenanigans

Жыл бұрын

The RetroEncabulator is one of the funniest things to ever be on the internet.

@g7dmo

Жыл бұрын

@@AutoShenanigans I agree. I burst out laughing when that came on screen. Nicely done John!

I'm so pleased we got to see junction 25, where a slip road comes onto the fast lane of the motorway. I have showed this junction to several visiting friends as they don't believe me...

@marks9351

Жыл бұрын

Sorry Eddie, but there's no such thing as a fast lane!

@SPTSuperSprinter156

Жыл бұрын

there is at least one like this in Glasgow as well, though I can't remember if the right lane is an exit or an entry (or both), it is potentially just as scary.

J25 was my intro to the M60 every morning for years. Joining the anti-clock, the slip road joins the 2-lane motorway and becomes the new L3. And all the racing enthusiasts clamour to dart out to occupy it asap because outside lane faster! Sometimes, they even recognise the presence of a vehicle already existing in that lane. Exciting! Also of interest: On the clockwise side the approach to J25, and continuing all the way around to just before J26 is an average speed control zone set to 50mph, because this bit is all re-purposed slip roads with tighter than normal curves for a motorway. It's a stretch of road that generates a huge amount of speeding tickets.

@dave_h_8742

Жыл бұрын

Revenue you mean😅

@dave_h_8742

Жыл бұрын

Racing enthusiasts also make joining from the M62 fun before the exit, and trying to accelerate going up the hill after some daft beggar doing 40 is terrifying

@nowster

Жыл бұрын

The Bredbury turn had its share of fatalities until the average speed cameras were introduced. It was originally built as two lanes and re-marked to three when the loop was nearing completion.

@JulianJLW

Жыл бұрын

@@nowster Yes, it was after the conversion to 3 lanes that the 50 limit was imposed, wasn't it?

@nowster

Жыл бұрын

@@JulianJLW A few years after. It was originally advisory until there were a few crashes.

Absolutely brilliant John. Knowledge and humour 👌👌👌

Junctions 25 and 26 are the perfect little bits of chaos to satisfy my inner child. Wicked sweet awesome!

The missing slip roads at junction 20 is a NIMBY thing, though a little more understandable. The houses would have needed to be demolished to build it so they managed to get them to change their mind about it. The other side did actually have an unfinished slip road if I remember correctly, but was never actually used. They've since build Tesco on part of the land it would have been on. I vaguely recall seeing the end of a massive pipe sticking out of the ground there too when they were building the thing. It used to dip down then up again before the bridge was built.

John a quick suggestion since your in the areas filming these maybe include video footage from your pov as you drive along 1 of the many "oddities" im sure theres a few who watch these have never ventured onto the m60 and witnessed the mind buggery of a hgv appearing in lane 3 and trying to get over 😂

@toebo9683

Жыл бұрын

Exactly... Being a lorry driver from Sunny Oldham. I have used that junction dozens of times. Not only does it put an hgv/driver into the outside lane ??? of the motorway. You Must move back across to the nearside lanes whilst traffic is passing through at M/way speeds on the blind side of hgv (crazy). Has we know, at this location on the opposite carriageway the speed limit is restricted to 50mph (sadly due to an horrific accident). But you would have thought they would of speed restricted both sides. 👍

@scottshaw1310

Жыл бұрын

I had an hgv swerve across from lane 3 (entry slip) and hit me (lane 1) before blaming me for being there! Then refused to watch my dashcam😂

@maybenot6075

Жыл бұрын

@@toebo9683 it boggles my mind why it's not speed restricted with cameras, I went past that slip road daily for 6months and its literally pot luck wether you have an accident or not

@billystanier6327

Жыл бұрын

Its one of the few motorway junctions where it is safer to exceed the speed limit rather than stick to it because of all the cars zipping along the inside.

@markbooth1117

Жыл бұрын

It scares the crap out of me every time I use it as I go from lane 3 to lane 1 for Denton Island. The only other one that scares me is the Junction of Barlow Moor Road (Southern Cemetary) turning right from Chorlton towards the M60, where you have to cross traffic coming up Princess Parkway from Moss Side, etc and try get over to the left for the M60 towards Stockport.

7:15 pride pendolino!

The Ferranti retro encabulator is a story that needs to be told

Simister Island interchange where the M60, M66 and M62 motorways do meet. I do think that a new slip road should be built to allow traffic on the M60 clockwise carriageway to avoid the congested roundabout with ease. As what you have explained in your previous video. Plus I still do believe that the M63 motorway should of been built so it would connect from the M6 motorway at Junction 19 near Knutsford to the M56 especially when coming from Birmingham and the South. That would make it easier to travel to Manchester from Birmingham.

The film 51st State (Samuel L Jackson, Meatloaf, Robert Carlyle ) used the completed, but not yet opened, M60 for the scenes where SLJ was picked up from Manchester Airport. A section about 2 to 3 miles from the M62/66 junction. I worked as a driver on it and was driving a coach alongside the Jag as general traffic when they filmed, but must have ended up in the bin because I'm certainly not in the actual film.

I can actually add some of this video as an MCR resident: 1. The old M63 used to end just before what is now the site of the Pyramid building (which was, is and always will be a strange thing for a largely unprofitable, socialist banking establishment to build and move into in 1990's surburban Manchester. As someone mentioned below, the section between the Pyramid and where the A6(M) should be was formally a rail route, which if I recall went from Manchester Central (once named GMEX, now named Manchester Central again, but no longer a railway station) to London (either St. Pancras or Paddington - can't remember now). The section of the old track on the other side of river Mersey now forms part of the Metrolink network after standing disused since the early 1980's. I think it was the bridge under the A6 that was damaged, but I thought it was from explosives use, not a digger, however I agree, it was suspiciously well timed. 2. The fast line entry of the slip road at the site of what should have been the A6(M) is indeed spectacularly dangerous, if you aren't familiar with the route, as you can find yourself gunning round a blind bend, only to find a truck preoccupied with having to traverse left across three lanes of traffic right in front of you. That same section of motorway heading in the opposite direction has such a tight turn that it is equipped with cameras and a permanent 50mph average speed limit, which must be one of the shortest sections of such things on the UK motorway network and long predates the concept of smart motorways. 3. I turned sixteen in 1999 and the topic of our GCSE Geography project was the impact of the up coming completion of the Manchester orbital motorway. We stood next to the Roxy cinema and the print works looking down on a remarkably undeveloped strip of land right through where the motorway now runs. Also stood atop of Audenshaw reservoir. I seem to remember being told that this structure was losing it's third element entirely, so when I noticed years later when flying in and out of Manchester Airport, I presumed this part of the scheme had been reworked, incorrectly it would appear. 4. I now live near Sinister Island and a public consultation has recently completed in relation to upgrading this monstrosity a great deal. It's slated to be gaining a loop round, flyover junction off the south bound M66, which will completely bypass the roundabout altogether and join up with the west bound M60. I'm sure studied have been done indicating otherwise, but common sense would dictate that if there is only the cash to do this for one slip road, the one joining the east bound M60/M62 and east bound M60 proper would be the one best served. Currently the north bound M66 junction and the west bound M60 proper to M60/M62 west bound junctions do not need to use the roundabout at all. 5. You discussed this in the previous video, but worth mentioning here, the section of road from Sinister Island to the M56 junction(s) is absolute chaos, twice a day, every week day. This section has junctions leaving and merging to multiple motorways and dual carriageways, as well as passing by both the Trafford Centre and Trafford Park, the latter of which gets especially busy when United are at home on a weekday evening. I've completely given up with this section of motorway at peak times and depending on where I am going and at what time of day I will either go the long way round the M60, or just use regular roads instead...

Approaching Stockport there used to be another railway that passed beneath the viaduct. There was a short tunnel which suffered damage while they were building the motorway and the line was closed.

@andrewhotston983

Жыл бұрын

Stockport Tiviot Dale, I think was the name of the station on that line.

If you take the A6 viaduct into Stockport from Manchester, the smell from McVities- the Jaffa Cake factory- on the Manchester side can be quite something.

@AutoShenanigans

Жыл бұрын

ahh that's what that was!!

Been watching these for a year or so and they are brilliant fun. My compliments to John...

Well you might have missed out Huddersfield completely, but glad to see Hazel Grove gets a mention!

Lovely job. Bored out of my mind trying to find something intelligent on the radio, but found Rob Beckett. Completely dire. They really are killing Radio 2. Glad to see there are limits to Jon's inner nerd. Even I find knowing about the Manchester Computer pointless, and I read Information Systems. *EDIT* You know what? If Tom Scott or Johnny Ball covered the MEC, I bet they could make it work.

That time of the week and a new episode. Wicked, sweet, awesome.

When I moved to Manchester 20-odd years ago people warned me about Jcn 25 and it’s “fast lane” sliproad, but coming from Glasgow I was well used to that since the M8 has (had?) a couple of them just West of the City Centre.

I’ve watched a few of your videos and you made me ‘lol’ a few times, especially on this episode, so I’ve subscribed. Also, living in Oldham, this is the closest section of the M60 to me, so it was quite interesting 👍🏻

@orwellboy1958

Жыл бұрын

Where have you been, David.👍

@dave_h_8742

Жыл бұрын

Yes where ?😂

@Dan23_7

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Dave…. Why so late to this awesome club for road nerds ? Welcome to the gang 👍🏼 Edit, omg I’m surrounded by Daves 😂

@David_Crayford

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard, Dave. 😉

@David_Crayford

Жыл бұрын

@@Dan23_7 LOL. Not so much a dog pile, but a Dave Pile.

As someone who has been driven on the M60 at J25 and always knew there was a planed Motorway fly over but never knew it would end up in Hazel Grove and it would most likely connect to the A555 to Manchester airport, also something I’m not 100% sure with is that I think there used to be a railway line that ran under the Stockport Viaduct where the M60 is today but all I have found on it was one black and white picture and even that was about 3 years ago.

You should have done it in your best Jeremy Clarkson voice... "The Stockport Viaduct is considered to one the largest brick structures......(dramatic pause).......In The World!"

Brilliant Jon, really enjoy your posts and the time you spend on them and of course your humour

LNER 4472 is known as 'Flying Scotsman'. No 'The'. 'The Flying Scotsman' is a named timetabled train service. 'Flying Scotsman' is the locomotive.

@borderlands6606

Жыл бұрын

Same thing. Did you see the Beatles vs did you see beatles.

J25 is what happens when you give road planners strong hallucinogenics and a spirograph.

Wonderful, as usual. Thanks John.

i always smile at the discontinuous hard shoulder signs at the m60/m56 link road junction.

Thankyou. Your reaction to J25 was exactly the same as mine the first time I used it and ended up in lane 3

Another great job John. Thanks!

Oh the retroincabuuullllaaatooorrrr! Well played sir...well played!

@AutoShenanigans

Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite clips from youtube Mk1.

That shot at 1.20 is the best!

Best series on YT! Keep up the good work. 100k well deserved

Good length, factual and usually funny, the perfect KZread Video

Part 2 I never knew I needed so much

Again..thanks for your brilliant presentations

Love this series!

I'm loving the extra humour you're putting into these Jon, keep it up hilarious 😂😂😂😂 Cheers:)😊

Surprised you didnt mention the tight right hander bend around J25 thats so tight that theres a permanent 50 mph speed limit controlled by average speed cameras (the first one’s i’d ever seen) creating a never ending bottle neck. Also in the opposite direction is a sign saying “motorway liable to flooding” which was put up when that stretch of the motorway was built which begs the question “ why did you build a motorway that you knew was going to flood” answers on a postcard.

@stephenbagwell8275

5 ай бұрын

It was made 50 mph clockwise only after a couple of nasty accidents. The section where it said motorway liable to flooding was above a valley!

Hi Jon, how the devil are you? Fantastic video, nice to see some local motorways recently. Look forward to these each Sunday. Have a good Easter

A great episode from my home town. The fact you included Ferranti's as well, where my late father worked at that very site, and had to drive there pre-motorway made it even more poignant. The site ended up as the major place for making semi-conductors for all sorts of applications, such as cars, computers, etc etc.

@davidjones332

Жыл бұрын

My mother worked for Ferranti during the war, making aircraft instruments in Newton Mill, Hyde, which was commandeered complete with all the young girls who worked there. Apparently all the girls went weak at the knees when the dashing and handsome young Basil de Ferranti came round the factory on inspection visits.

Haha am learning to drive and Ive been through these a few times on the non motorway routes, always fun to see you covering local places

Another brilliant and fascinating video John and loved the Outro with Corrie being a nod to the region.

4:09 Silver car doing a bit of apparition under the railway bridge 😉

@contactjd

Жыл бұрын

Just as he says "Something is a miss here I suspect" so many hidden Easter eggs in these videos !

Cracking videos - informative and funny! Thank you so much for your work, my wife and I really look forward to each one. Being a Pom exiled in Australia I love seeing these. Keep up the good work...

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

Loved your explanation of the flustercuck that is junction 25. Joining the motorway there from Bredbury normally involves a bit of breath holding and hoping that death isn't imminent! The A6(M) I think was planned to cross the A6 and head over to the airport; the south part of that (A6 - airport) was finally built in 2017 as the A555; but that took 45 ish years to happen. Whether the bit that links to the M60 will be built in anyone's lifetime remains to be seen.....

@apb3251

Жыл бұрын

I live in hope for it to be completed but both Stockport and Hazel Grove Golf Courses might have something to say. Most of the route is left in preparation for it to be constructed.

@SiEffen

Жыл бұрын

@@apb3251 Agreed. In 2004-ish there was a mailing that went to all houses in the locality discussing the junction with the A6 and all the information suggested that the road was being built right through. But clearly they changed their minds!

Once again, a video about things that shouldn't matter, but somehow really do. Well researched, interesting stuff. Mega video, cheers Jon!

Happy Easter, another interesting video. Thanks Jayne

Great episode! Hope I'm not the only one that always waves back to Jon during the outro

@mandysaunders9454

Жыл бұрын

I just did it

I was not expecting a Turbo Encabulator cameo. Amazing

Excellent John/Jon. Where J1 is I love looking at where they cut into that sandstone rock next to lane 1. And the viaduct to look at too. I’m surprised I haven’t crashed there gawping away 👀

Awesome video

great work again Jon 😀

Great video very interesting thank you

Great video John,as always very interesting.😀👌👍

You forgot to mention that on junction 25, the slip road merges into the fast lane. It's always absolute bedlam there.

Your demeanor is oddly sincerely captivating, and I have a similar personality, thank you for putting yourself out there I feel not alone.

7:43 there it is! 😀

Great series

My Sunday dose of motorway comedy, brilliant

I wish they would have built the A6M, the Stockport section of the M60 is an absolute nightmare during rush hour.

How about a video showing how long it takes to get from one end of a motorway to the other end. But without using the motorway. A sort of "how we used to do it".

@davedoohan2732

Жыл бұрын

How we used to do it or “every day in Cornwall”….

@dave_h_8742

Жыл бұрын

​@@davedoohan2732 you've got the new dual carriageway was worse before that was built !

Great video,as always!

you have grown on me, really do like your delivery

Until the early 80s there was another line that ran under Stockport viaduct then into a tunnel roughly parallel to the line of the motorway. The line was closed when construction work on the motorway caused the tunnel to collapse. The next stretch of the motorway was built on part of the trackbed of the now-abandoned line. Coincidence?

The Sunday Supplement 💪

Brilliant ace awsome

I've been listening to it now for over 60 years and have never commented, but I'll do that here and now for 60 years' sakes: The Coronation Street theme music is SUCH A DIRGE.

Fascinating video, i was there yesterday

Your content is great, very interesting, thanks, all the best, 👍👊✌️🌍.

John " what the fuck is that! " made me laugh so much XD nice work John

Great videos.. I used to live in didsbury (my daughter still does) right next to Stockport.. I lived in Mossley and now live in Bury. It's fascinating to see facts and sites regarding these specific motorways, as I drive down them everyday!...Ps I drive for a living so I drive down the many roads you mention 😂... 👍