Construction of the M74 Motorway & Opening Ceremony (1980s)
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2019
- This film charts the construction of the M74 motorway between Junctions 10 (Lesmahagow) and 11 (Poniel) in the mid-1980s. Includes the official opening ceremony, held in October 1986. Important part of Scotland's motorway history, brought to you by the Glasgow Motorway Archive.
Very interesting film, thanks. 80mph over a 16mm rumble strip? That'll be a company car!
Engineering nightmare, I was part of a crew that had to resurface the largest of the bridges a the Lesmahagow junctions. Wasn't enough concrete coverage over the bars and caused bad corrosion which was hydro blasted out and re-concreted. Bridge joints failed as they were only 50mm deep. With the way 40 tonne lorries have been hitting it for 50 years it doesn't surprise me that there has been so much wear on the bridge deck. It was never designed to carry as much traffic as what we see now a days. Over 40k vehicles travel this section everyday. Not only that it has turned out to be one of the most dangerous sections as water likes to gather at the lowest point. Again we had to install drainage to cope with the volume of water that stands on the road.
Wonderful film. Thanks for posting this.
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I am sure home has elevated road before the World, the world is constructing those roads after 40 years. Home comes first, thank you guys
We travelled that road when it was brand new - Summer of 1987 (just 14 then)!
I used to really like the concrete roads as a child - would very much doubt it as a driver today...
I like the black low noise surfaces - so smooth and easy for driving on.
Also, why not 6 lanes? ...but I guess the older M74 towards Glasgow had just 4 lanes.
Horrible noisy concrete. I lived on Eastwood Farm. Constant noise from the road. Interesting to see them building the bridge over the Nethan. It was always weird to me that you have to travel down the old dual carriageway, over that round about at 22:35 and further down the old dual carriageway to actually get onto the M74 southbound when you can get onto the M74 northbound at that roundabout.
Ah the good old Austin ital, the car was crap the concrete was crap but the idea of the motorway was not crap, it’s hard to believe that when I’m heading for the ferry at cairnryan it’s quicker to get from Gretna to Glasgow and Edinburgh than it is for me to get to the ferry and when you look at the distance then you’ll understand, if they upgraded the road to dual carriageway it would cut 40 minutes or more off the journey time and when you realise the lorries that use the road then an upgrade is needed
That A75 is tedious. Nice countryside but long winded, aye
Interesting historical film there - ironic that that section of the M74 has become a bottleneck!
I wonder how long that concrete surface lasted? I think I can vaguely remember it being like that in the early 90s, but glad to see the back of it, it's horrible to drive on, asphalt is far quieter & smoother!
Incidentally, I got caught in a huge tailback near Draffan back in October - it was either major resurfacing work or a new/reconstructed junction? Couldn't make it out, it was dark & I was in the middle of a near 500 mile journey....
Funnily enough, I was looking at an AA road atlas (just to relate the video to the location) & couldn't find Millbank, Poniel or any of the other places mentioned (other than Draffan & Douglas).
The chap on the microphone looks a bit like Dennis Weaver
That concrete was crap Broxburn main st is concrete and it is a lot better wearing and much much older is that why the M 74 is all tar macadam now I love these videos my mother in law used to go by bus overnight to Blackpool and it took 12 hours in those days before all the improvements where made to the upper 74 and the lower 74 and the m 6 m 55 ect part of my family was christened by Rev niven
Whatlings no longer exists, and Norwest Holst is part of French company Vinci group and a shadow of its former self. Why didn't they just tarmac the entire length? The concrete seems a bit of a faff!
Says this is alot 😂