Motoring Oddities EP5 - The Longest Straight Road in the UK - Lincolnshire
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2024
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If you're looking for an arrow straight road to test those high speed vehicles.. the A15 would have been perfect, if it wasn't for the speed cameras.
Today, not only are we exploring the straightest road the UK has to offer, we're doing so in style with a Ford Mustang! I might have taken a little inspiration from a Top Gear episode of yester year..
Special thanks to the Red Arrows display team for their brief appearances.
I'm so happy I discovered you tonight. I'm just a normal US American woman that has laughed the most watching your videos. I absolutely adore John. He's is sarcastically hilarious.
It's the straightest of roads in the flattest of counties, but that's not to say it's a flat road. There's plenty of hills and dips on it that can easily hide an oncoming artic and someone doing an overtake at the wrong moment. That's pretty much the reason for the cameras and speed traps, and it's happened a lot of times. Might be worth adding a bit to the video about this roads terrible safety record. I don't want to come across as boring, I'm a complete petrolhead myself (cars and bikes), but this isn't a road for testing a high speed vehicle.
Hitting something will only ruin your day and you hit it hard enough that day will last you the rest of your sadly terminated life. Stay safe whilst having fun.
Plenty of pile ups on the 15
100%. The map makes it look like a really straight road so you kind of assume its gonna be some flat straight haven of a road for speeding.
But driving it in reality, the road has lots of dips which go up and down which mean you don't always have overtaking opportunities. On top of that the road has some very slight kinks (on top of the Airbase kink of course) its not like perfectly straight. And of course, the speed cameras are there too. Not to mention HGVs trudging at like 40mph on it stop you from going faster anyway a lot of the time
ANY sausage is fine, provided it's English, local and made by a master butcher.
DO NOT overtake on this road. There used to be an ambulance at caenby corner cafe all day and sometimes a hearse for scooping up impatient boy racer teenagers possessing a shiny new licence. 😁
I'd argue that the Fosse Way at 200+ miles and almost straight is a contender. It has been broken up with the odd bypass and traffic calming scheme but it is a spectacular straight road. I used to take it from Leicester to Cirencester when working there on a site.
We used to have a charity motorcycle run known as the Route 66 run, going from New York in Lincolnshire, to California (Yarmouth) in Norfolk. A pleasant summer run.
That sounds like a great idea!
Rather quicker than the original Canonball
Lol... " Wish You Were Here" theme music at the end 😂😂.
Looking forward to a motorways abroad section 👌
"No wonder we won" Priceless!!!!
As a resident of Boston (one of the slimmer ones I might add), I can share that one of the town's claims to fame is that the Pilgrim Fathers left from near here, or there abouts, to head off to America. So yes, Boston is famous for a group of people who were desperate to leave!
Were they the guys that founded Boston Massachusetts by any chance?
@@helenHTID They were indeed.
The ship only got as far as Southampton before springing a leek and had to find another, the name of which we all know.
@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 Dave?
They tried to leave from Boston but we unsuccessful
You should try England's genuine Route 66, the A66 between Middlesbrough and Workington. There are lots of abandoned sections particularly around Bowes after the road has been upgraded over the years. That road in the '80's was a winding country lane whereas now it is a modern dual carriageway. The scenery is also spectacular.
I love that drive on the A66, but still one of the most dangerous in the country unfortunately.
You’re right the scenery is spectacular but there are still multiple sections of road that have not been dualled both in North Yorkshire and Cumbria. On the single carriageway sections some crossovers have been staggered or the formation altered to improve safety by increasing visibility but it’s still a dangerous road and really needs to be dualled in it’s entirety.
And yes only 35 years ago it was a winding meandering country road and it took ages to drive from Darlo to Penrith now it’s really quick providing you don’t get stuck behind a tractor on one of the single sections. You’re taking your life in your hands by overtaking on those sections!
The Fosse Way from Moreton in the Marsh up to the point where it hits Watling Street is 40 miles dead straight with just one minor diversion at Brinklow.
I keep finding videos that I haven't seen, and obviously I am not the only one😉
A15 forms part of Ermine Street which runs all the way from London (somewhere outside Liverpool Street train station) all the way to York - it was the M1 of it's day.
Lincolnshire sausages are by far the best. My sister moved to Bigglewade early in her marriage but always came back to Lincolonshire to get her sausages.
Whoooo. I bet the red arrows weren't cheap 😂
Surely, this is the Roman road Ermine Street; but no mention of that? (I live near Watling Street, pretty straight too)
I drive along this section of A15 quite often and it's a absolute pig of a road to drive. Although it's straight it's also very undulating making it difficult to overtake slower traffic. Also don't worry about the speed cameras driving along this section of road during the day. If you get above 40 mph you're do well because the amount of lorries and tractors that use this road has to be seen. Not a good road to test your high speed vehicle on believe me!
The A15 follows the path of the old Roman road (called Ermine Street). Lots of archeology around. Lots and lots of big tractors!!
I've been on the A15 today it's a lovely road to ride on with some fabulous views of the Lincolnshire countryside, re the question of which is the best sausage I've got to say I like them both
I could listen to that V8 all day!
RAF Scampton has a bow and arrow as their emblem....because that's how it (roughly) looks from the air after the runway was extended and road "bent"around it. Also the A15 starting at Hessle is relatively new, extended when the Humber Bridge opened. If you notice the A15 disappears along the M180 a few miles to link with the original road. Good video as ever
Yes of course between East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, which used to be the not at all liked really county of Humberside. But that is where the Humber Bridge is too.
My van broke down a while ago near Burton waters, not far from the A15 and RAF scampton. Because of the efficiency of the RAC I was at the roadside from 9.30 am until 5.45 pm
I did get a display from the red arrows though 👍🏼👍🏼
I think I’ve said before on previous vids I deliver nationwide so I get about lol
I know the A15 very well
Now I know it’s famous I’m getting an autograph the next time I’m on it 😁
As an avid fan of the mind numbingly mundane, I love this channel.
I've only driven along it once and was surprised how bloody hard it was to drive absolutely straight for that long!!!
Excellent padding out!
Hi another good video. There was a long road in Thetford Norfolk but then they built the A11 on it & around it. That might go in your abandoned roads because you can still go on part of it but the rest they blocked off. If you put in main road south of Thetford on RUclips. You can see how long the road was. Also if you put in A11 construction from Thetford update. That we'll show you how long it is from the air & show you the old bit that they go around it.
Thanks for watching and good info I shall have an explore on google Earth
The A15 is a great commuting road. It was 80% of my commute at one point and if you get behind a lorry and set your cruise control your pretty much set for 30 mins at a time between roundabouts. The M1 was probably the only contender.
Ermine Street. Direct to retirement for any long-serving legionary from Londinium to Lindum Colonia as the corvus fugit.
Dulcis.
I can’t believe Scunthorpe got away so lightly!!
Thank you very much for your insight of all motorways very interesting
Nice of the Red Arrows to lend you their services for this video 😁
I took my first Aston here and got pulled over for being too excessive with my speed and they were more interested in the car, just got a warning but they still wanted me to floor it off so they could hear the exhaust.
It's also known as one of Lincolnshire's most dangerous roads. There's been loads of crashes, usually involving artic trucks and hundreds of deaths. It may be straight but it isn't flat !!!
As a truck driver myself I can say with some authority the crashes caused by crap driving and mostly oncoming vehicles cutting to the white line or more, causing the other vehicle to drop a wheel in the dirt then be pulled off the road......I can get flat out through those bends fully loaded both directions and stay within the lines, no drama. (most of the truck crashes happen on the wiggly bit near Caenby Corner)
Oooooo, Mustang content on Auto Shenanigans! (apologies, I only discovered your channel about a month ago, so lots of catching up to do!). I've got a 2005 Mustang V8 (S197) just like Hammond drove in that episode......she's my fair weather Garage Queen, and I have a 2006 V6 for daily duties. The both certainly attract attention over here in England, and I've not hit any crowds.......yet. My wife does have a Volvo V60, so at least we share Swedish made cars in common! Loving the videos and your oh-so-British sarcastic humour! I'll share this one with my Mustang buddies.....hopefully get you a few more subscribers 🙂 (oh, and the answer is Richmond. Sausages, that is. Yes, I'm a heathen lol)
“…hosted over 70 airfields. SEVENTY! In ONE county! No wonder we won”. 😅😉✌️
Lincolnshire sausage is the best.
Particularly from Watkins in Grantham.
@@61js oh yes totally agree with you. Kirks in skegness is really good too.
the romans called it Ermine street. right next to it there are still elements of it and the roundabout at the top end it goes trough that. its kinda cool
England's route 66 goes from Cumbria to Teesside.
The A66 aligns to the compass much better as well, and has the character befitting. 20 miles in spud country is morelike the southern section of the Pan-Americas Highway where they invented potatoes.
There is a cycle route 66 in East Yorkshire. Shame about the cyclists.
Wait, how did you escape Yorkshire?! (pls help)
A15 is a horrific road to drive, I used to drive/ride it every day, both sides of Lincoln and honestly, I'm so glad I dont have to do it daily. They desperately need to turn it into a dual carriage way.
I take the A15 every week but don't think I've ever been past Lincoln. I had no idea
The road was straight even after RAF Scampton was built during the war; the runway was lengthened in 1956 when the Avro Vulcan lived at Scampton, so the road needed to be moved.
I have driven on that stretch of road. I found it rather pleasent.
Thank you Jon for the information on the Ford 🙄. Many year ago our unofficial car club would use the Fens and the like, to test our driving ability and our Brakes. When we recognised another UCCM heading our way, two flashes of the head lights if everything was ok behind you, six if the police were chasing you. God bless the Panda Car 🚔 Toot Toot
Where is the longest gay road though?
It’s probably the A3, which goes from Wandsworth to Portsmouth, according to this guy: ruclips.net/video/OMdPj3HXMgQ/видео.html
The one leading to the rainbow 🌈
There all gay
The driveway leading to your house.🤣🤣🤣
I love Linconshire and their sausages.
Glad you watch the jazz club. Nice
Isn't England's Route 66, er, the A66...?
How odd that I've lived in Lincoln now for the best part of 20 years and didn't know that about the A15
What didn't you know?
@@rooramblingon895 about it being the longest stretch of straight road
"Featuring, The Red Arrows"
- Vic to Bob, The Weekenders, 1992
Meat Festival!
Another Great and informative video.
Thanks man, hope you are well.
boston, fatest, also strongest leave vote in 2016
Xenophobic capital of England.
I think Jon is conning us.
A milk float with an overdubbed V8 soundtrack. lol
I , as a born and bred Lincolnshire lad have to say that I am a Lincolnshire sausage fan ,very much so - I’ve carried one everywhere I’ve been all my life. It doesn’t half make the ladies from other counties chuckle when they say they like Lincolnshire sausage if you tell them that 😂
I used to go from Lincoln to Bristol in my dad`s lorry years ago on the A46. It`s gone all bending now.
Speed cameras aren't a problem. Given that you can never do more than 40mph due to all the HGVs.
And tractors
In Boston Aldi it's always Cumberland sausages left on the shelf!
They also love this amazing brexit there
@@redboyjan What Brexit? The elites keep dragging their heels
@@g8ymw 🤡
Not sure if this will tempt me to visit Lincolnshire anytime soon! 😜
Lmao the music of Holiday 🤣 I am also a big petrol head so loved the Mustang. Yes, Lincolncestersesershire is indeed very flat indeed.
Lincolnshire sausages FTW.
There's another straight road in Lincolnshire, between the villages of Frithville and Revesby Bridge, north-west of Boston. That's known as the 7-mile straight (although seems to be closer to 6).
P.S. Boston lost it's title of the fattest town
The Lincolnshire sausage is the winner as McDonalds pork patties are in this style...
Lincolnshire sausage beats cumberland every day of the week!
Definitely.
As an HGV driver the bit from Scunthorpe to Lincoln is very narrow when you pass another HGV coming the other way…there ain’t a lot of room 😬
And to help they just reduce the speed limit because that makes the road wider lol
Deffo Lincolnshire sausages
Have a look at the Nullarbor, mate, if ya wanna see a straight road. The railway is even straighter and longer.
Aussie's don;t know how to make curved roads, never mind how to surface them properly.....
Last time I looked, Nullarbor isn't in the UK
@@g8ymw Correct. There's not enough room. Though the Ancient Romans did the best they could from London to Edinburgh,
Lincolnshire sausages every time.
The best sausage is definitely the Newmarket sausage, from Suffolk. Well it's technically in Suffolk but it's kind of absurd, it should definitely be Cambridgeshire, it's completely surrounded by Cambridgeshire except for like one road connecting it to the rest of Suffolk. As for which is best between Cumberland and Lincolnshire sausages... probably Lincolnshire. But honestly neither of them are anything to get too excited about.
Wish you were here theme, that takes me back!
My wife is from Ukraine. I’ve been there 15 times also used to live there for a few months as well. She is from a city in central Ukraine about 300 km south of Kyiv. One thing that I noticed straight away the first time I went to Ukraine is if you take yourself 50 km south of Kyiv it looks just like Lincolnshire. Flat and sprawling fields. quite honestly if you got dropped there by aliens you would think you were in Lincolnshire if you didn’t know
I can quite believe that.
Apparently its the same sort of chalky/limestone soil as well which probably makes it so fertile. No wonder its the bread basket of Europe.
Ah theres is a way of telling
If a farmer from Linconshire says i'll like to introduce you to my daugther and wife there be only one women standing there.🤐
@@paulspeight8398 😂😂😂😂
Holiday show theme tune 😂 you crack me up
I love the fact you use "wish you were here" theme to you video 🤣
the adaptation of the structure of Tim (of The eponymous Traveller fame)’s outro is a nice touch, too.
Straightest...and one of the most dangerous, as a trucker there isnt a lot of room between trucks for most of the A15 from Scunthorpe to Lincoln.
I’ve said it before, it’s not the road that’s dangerous, it’s the twats that over take on it! Get rid of them and we’re all good 👍
Padding the video is entirely acceptable for this subject. It's a road that is long and straight with nothing to see on it. There's not much more you could say about it.
The A46. Fosse Way is a lot longer and straighter!
I think the longest straightest fastest road I've been on is the A836 between Castletown and Thurso up near John O'Groats. Is only 3 and a half miles but was deserted, with massive visibility, and no cameras....
Impressive for the UK. I used to drive on I80 though Nebraska. That's straight for about 70 miles. I had my Honda Pilot shake it's steering wheel at me to "put in human inputs" as it thought I wasn't holding the wheel when in fact I just had no need to actually turn the wheel. Stupid car...
surely England's (almost) coast to coast Route 66 is Workington to Scotch corner (the A66).
Where would the straightest stretch of road in scotland be including the islands
I watched to the very end and I must have missed the obvious joke about Scunthorpe
I spent a couple of days at a mental health hospital just near RAF Scamption. Some say the straightness of the road caused me to go mad, others say I was there swapping out every PC on site
Did you try turning it off and on again?
@@AutoShenanigans it was probably saying that to people that sent me mad
That and any printer.
Did you go round the bend?
I used to live in a village called Hibaldstow near the Scunthorpe bit. It was indeed a straight road but it wasn't exactly an "overtakers mecca." There are stretches of the road which - while straight - dipped, and drivers would often pull out into the oncoming lane intent on leaving you floundering in their dust, to be suddenly confronted with an oncoming vehicle that they hadn't seen, rising out of the dip.
Dips that can completely hide an artic (That one just North of Caendby Corner)
Don’t knock Hull…great heritage and within 20 minutes you can be stood on a cliff top looking out to sea.
@@ABunchOfSpanners beat me to it 😂
I use the A15 when heading to Blyton Park for track days.
Wrong !
The 2003/4 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra, was not only the very first Mustang V8 with a Supercharger, a Six speed manual Gearbox, but also the very first Mustang with an Independent rear Suspension !
but, as said in a comment above, not sold in UK
I'll host a pride parade down the A15. Straightest road my arse.
Make it so!
Is that a handbag you're sporting at 3:29 in the footwell ;)
majority of the roads around lincoln are straight not many are on hills
Used to be able to cruise along that stretch at high speed but not anymore
Love the end music. 😂
It's an absolute banger! Thanks for watching :D
It's "The Carnival" by Gordon Giltrap. It used to be the theme for the travel show "Wish You Were Here!"
It reminds me of some of the long straight roads I drove on in New Zealand.... Only much shorter....
New Zealands longest straight is only 13.7km long (8.5mi). Maybe Australia?
@@KELVIN4TOR There is a road literally called 90 mile straight in the south of Western Australia
It might be one of the straightest roads it also one of the most dangerous.
The drivers who drive on it are danderous.
Lincolnshire sausages are the best by far.
"It's home to cities such as Lincoln", you should have stopped there, I'm pretty sure it's their only city, Scunthorpe and Grantham are towns aren't they?
Now let's take a moment to laugh at Suffolk with its zero cities. They should make Bury St Edmunds a city, just because I know that will piss off Ipswich. And it's always good to piss off Ipswich.
I've got a question and the question is: was the a15 split into 2 sections or has it been 1 section and then split
The section from Hessle ( the Humber Bridge is a relatively new section and was probably designated as the A15 because it was the nearest trunk road. The road carrys on to the roundabout at the M180 then, to rejoin the A15 proper, off at the next exit.
Retro Auto Shenanigans!
by saying the Mustang "has an air of American car about it" do you mean it is a bit crap?
Handles like "jelly on the plate"? lol
B1398 parallel to A15 along Lincoln Edge is a better driving road. Watch out for Caenby Corner roundabout on A15.
The A15 may be the longest road ,but its also one of the worse driving roads,, yeah I also would choose the B1398 over the A15 anyday!!!
It’s also much more scenic. The A15 is dull.
Lincolnshire sausage from LOUTH
Whos though. Lakens
irmland 😼
@@ryanharris2305 It used to be Jacksons but closed now - so Lakings
do you know the reason how and why the A15 is split?... starting in Hessle you come over the Humber Bridge heading south and it stops at Barnetby.... then you have to travel West along the M180 towards Scunthorpe for a good few miles, before picking up the A15 again south to Lincoln..... how come it is in 2 sections and miles apart rather than a single continuous road.
Lots of roads were "split" as they were superceded by more major roads and motorways. I often use the A361 in Somerset and Devon. It's technically the longest three digit A road in the UK. In parts around me it disappears into the A38, A39 and M5 for short sections. The original alignment became the B3227 in the 80s when the North Devon Link Road was built. In the case of the A15 I believe the M180 took some of it's alignment, so technically it is the M180 (A15)
That's called a "Multiplex"
The Humber Bridge section of the road was built to serve the bridge from the south. Never an original part at the 15 probably just a convenient number to give it being relatively close
It's slow old road when you're stuck behind lorries, when will they dual it?
Talking about it for decades.
However, may be scuppered by archeology.
Now Scampton is shut, they could reopen the old A15 as the Northbound carriageway
I cannot believe Ford has put an electric motor in the Mustang and still have the nerve to call it a Mustang. Shame on you Ford.