Was thinking if the M90 that goes from Junction 10 to Junction 12 could be renumbered as the M901 or A9(M) Perth Western Spur motorway. And congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers. 😁
Yeah turning a space people use to get away from it all into a tourist destination and having £5 parking charges ( don’t be silly it couldn’t be free).
Most of the motorway curve at Craigend is 694m in radius, the same as at Balmanno Hill, but part of it at the southern end reduces, for only about 200m, to 520 m., probably the tightest anywhere in the UK. The gradient uphill to Broxden is almost 5%, and downhill almost 6%, the steepest in mainland UK. It was a very challenging place to construct a complex interchange. I did the layout design - 150 pages of co-ordinate geometry calculations- no computers back then (1968-69). Other colleagues designed the seven bridges.
Nice one. Presumably the original railway alignment took a different route to avoid these gradients. I actually travelled on this line on the way to Dundee, as a lad, back in the 60's.
@@James-gf9jl The railway from Glenfarg would have entered Perth via the still in use Moncreiffe Tunnel, below the interchange, without gradient issues, I imagine. Coming down from Glenfarg to Strathearn the gradient appears to have been 1 in 75.
My dad worked for Tarmac at the time, and helped "test" the new road by going down it in an artic lorry (they actually went north down the southbound carriageway as the n/b one wasn't finished). At one point the tractor unit was in a different lane from the trailer, so after that they decided to install the "HGVs engage low gear" signs up. Or so his story goes!
@@James-gf9jl Yes, it does, and the route of it is still there along with some towers of an old bridge outside Bridge of Earn that was demolished as part of the motorway construction.
Yay, capitalism. Especially when the reclamation of the land after the mining was probably paid for with public funds, and now it will probably be sold to the wellness wankers for less than the cost of the reclamation. If two capitalists profit, does that make this an example of the trickle down effect?
I live in South Florida but I was on the M90 this time last week on vacation with the wife..... Such a beautiful country.... CONGRATULATIONS ON 100K Jon!
Fun fact about junction 12, it sign posts every Scottish city, local road to Perth, A9N to Inverness, M90 for Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, and A9S to Stirling and Glasgow.
On my first visit to Scotland. While crossing the queens ferry bridge. The rail bridge was pointed out to me. Being in the haze of 10 hours of flight time. Including what seemed an unreasonable small plane with propellers from Dublin. I thought that thing can not be real. Looks like some kinda steampunk fairytale bridge. A couple days latter I was able to ride across it. Being a railroader from the states. It was simply amazing to see it and ride across it. I have worked on and rode across many rail bridges here in that states and nothing compares.
It never fails to surprise me how few bridges there are like that one. I live 15mins away and I think that very few people that use it regularly really appreciate how unique it is. You should see what was nearly built instead, it was fate that we got this one in the end.
Three bridges over the Forth, each built in a different century and each an engineering marvel in their day. The Wellness Park was originally designed by landscape artist Charles Jenks. Unfortunately Scottish Coal went bust and the project was never fully completed. The village of lassoddie disappeared when the open cast was opened.
100k subscribers! 🍾Whoop whoop!! When you first stated you wanted to get to 100k I admired your ambition but doubted it would actually happen, but here we are! 🙂
The road renumbering that you mentioned was done so that the 90 number linked Scotland's second third & fourth largest cities (Edinburgh - Dundee - Aberdeen) using Motorways and dual carriageways. Before that the road was a mishmash of numbers. When driving from Edinburgh to Dundee and Aberdeen the Motorway makes sense.
I've crossed over the Friarton Bridge a couple of times and one of them was southbound, in a Cupra, with a... 'spirited' driver behind the wheel. In a blizzard/freezing rain. Unfortunately it collects a lot of standing water, usually partially frozen, and I kid you not, there were four Merc/BMW/Audi things presumably all rear-wheel drive, planted facewards separately in the central reservation. I presume they caught a gust of wind in the blizzard and didn't correct properly, or couldn't, because of their driving style and chosen configuration. Fortunately my spirited driver had a bit more right foot discretion and 4WD so we made it to our date at Edinburgh Napier alive, by which time of course, it was sunny... Side note - why does anyone in Scotland drive RWD? It's well known back in the Welsh Valleys that when it snows, all the BMW drivers go out seeking the nearest tree to crash into within 5 minutes of leaving home.
My friend was a surveyor on the Queensferry crossing while the pylons were being constructed. She had to work night shift because she was at the top of the towers and was afraid of heights.
Missing coal mine location: Pause the video at 6:02 Directly under the "o" in the caption for Netherbeath Road, just north of the railway, there is a small scar, which appears to be a former open quarry, and is linked to the abandoned road by a track up the western side of the tree line.
The open cast mine was big occupying a number of fields. Fife council had excellent track record of making former opencast sites returned to agricultural and forestry.
Great video. Grandparents live Queensferry. Perfect timing with the steam train. Btw the new bridge is called the Queensferry Crossing not Queensferry Bridge. Interesting fact, it’s the only location in the world where there is a bridge from the last three centuries are side by side.
Awesome video mate. How junctions 4 and 5 of the M90 are laid out, is pretty much how every freeway junction is built here in Perth, Western Australia. Maybe the original designers were inspired by the motorway built to Perth, Scotland.
That train coming over the railroad bridge is being pulled by the LMS Jubilee Class 5690 Leander (BR No. 45690). 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Jubilee_Class_5690_Leander Cool! 😎
I think the M90 is the UK's most beautiful motorway. From the Stunning Queensferry crossing with the views to the other bridges, approaching and crossing it is amazing. Then you've got the Lomondhills and Loch Leven. The Valley with Glenfarg, is beautiful (pity it's got a motherway in it), leading to views over the Earn valley and the first glimpse of the highlands. Even the friarton bridge offers a stunning view of Kinnoul hill, it looks like you're driving into a vast green tree wall as you come to the bridge from the south. Yes, the motorway is underspecified and confusing, but it has so much going for it
"Enjoy your week whatever it is you get up to". Well Jon, funny you should say that as I'll be traveling the length of the M90 up to Pitlochry for the week.
Congrats on the 100k subs. I think the collection of junction 1B, 1C, and 2 must be the highest concentration of junctions anywhere on the motorway network - 3 junctions in ~1 mile, slightly higher than the at least 1.5 miles apart that they are meant to be.
I grew up near Bridge Of Earn and i remember when they built the stretch north of Glenfarg. I remember seeing the rock getting blasted away from the end of Balmanno Hill
I lived in Scotland during the Queensferry Bridge construction. I used to regularly get the Aberdeen to London train back to my home town and watched them go from river bed foundations to what we see today. I moved back down sooth before i saw it open though.
The Forth Rail Bridge is indeed an iconic sight known all across the world. As a Scottish person I love to see it, whether crossing over it on a train or viewing it from a motor vehicle. We are very fortunate to have the 3 bridges all going across the River Forth from Edinburgh to Fife now.
Indeed, the Forth Road Bridge is still in use but only really for buses and taxis and maybe even Emergency Service vehicles such as an ambulance on a blue-light call.
I never knew about that quarry! I think too many folk are more concerned with the Jobby factory over the road and it's smell. The Kelty turn off slip roads are awful, many an accident and you practically pull onto to the crossing road to see anything. Cheers again John for amazing info of a road I use daily! ❤
This motorway will take some beating for scenery and remarkableness - you captured it beautifully! Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers - I'm proud to say I've been here since (quite close to) the beginning 😁
What was that funny conga line of oddly shaped lorries crossing the railway bridge?! The front one seemed to be on fire! Crazy... anyway, back to the motorway :)
I've spent best part of 40 years driving on these exact roads ..... so much about them I didn't know 🤓.... I've also found some new places to go for a walk .... 😎
This is the one I was looking for. The place names are familiar. In Canada, the exit numbers are numbered by the km number, so there's none of that A, B, C to worry about. This is the only theme music that I don't fast forward through, I can't get enough of it.
Sometimes you just think road-planners should be taken away and given a good slappin for the complete mish-mash and nonsense they have perpetrated on us. Scotland seems to have not just taken one biscuit, but several packets in this regard. (shakes head). Great video Jon. Hope you are enjoying your time in Scotland.
@@jamieokane989 Yes. But having not even half-finished schemes, renumbering making navigating confusing, doesnt benefit anybody. Scotland isnt alone in this. Just seems to have a lot that got left on the table.
It's good to see my childhood haunts in video (an even see my old house in Inverkeithing on a couple of occasions). Lots of happy memories running around that part of the world. I have also walked the Glenfarg railway (or what's left) well worth the bimble.
A friend who used to travel by rail between Edinburgh and Perth via the Glenfarg route in the 1950s and early 1960s told me that it was a very underused service for some reason and he wasn't surprised it got the chop with the Beeching cuts. Nowadays, Perth would have been seen as a dormitory city for people who work in Edinburgh and were prepared to travel 40 miles to work by train, given the price of houses in Auld Reekie. P.S. At 0:23 Kirkliston is pronounced 'Kirk-liston', with the stress on both the first two syllables, not 'Kirkulstone'!
Beeching didn't propose closing the line, he earmarked it for retention, but creating single track working north of Cowdenbeath, which is why it didn't close in the mid 60s but the early 70s. The Scottish Office wanted the trackbed for cost saving and engineering purposes, especially after the collapse of the Masterton viaduct on 22 June 1962.
M90 Kelty bypass (from beyond J2 to just before J5) was also built without hard shoulders, but they were added later. If you look carefully at the tarmac on the hard shoulders around the emergency telephones, you may be able to see traces of the original lay-bys showing through. J5 to J8 was built as unreinforced concrete carriageway, so adding shoulders was deemed too difficult, even though space had been left for them.
Living in Dundee, this is my local motorway. I regularly drive from the A90 around Perth to the roundabout at the end, which is the northernmost motorway journey possible in the UK: the second most northern junction to the northernmost junction. It must be a candidate for being the most scenic motorway in the UK though. Sidenote on the A9000, the old bridge is now only accessible to non-motorway traffic, buses and taxis.
As usual secrets of the motorway has been really interesting and educational and as the M90 is in my neck of the woods I have been waiting for this one. Chuffed you got to the Glenfarg tunnels, I was hoping that would be a secret you would uncover!
Couldn't have put it better about The Walnut Whips - for "Wellness Centres" read Profits. Damn this country - any place you can chill out for free is being replaced by something made for profit. Congrats on the 100K subs - although it still shows 99.9K onn my screen. Still waiting for you to review the motorways of Norfolk & Suffolk... ;)
My dad helped construct the Glenfarg section of the M90 in the 1970s. They used to use the old railway tunnels as a shortcut from their site offices at Bridge of Earn to the site itself. It's also often asked why there's no exit at Glenfarg. The answer is that the villagers were asked if they wanted one, and they didn't. So there isn't.
Fantastic, happy to see where i am and even my house in one of your drone shots. Also your spot on about these wellness centres, that site was meant to be open to the public for free but clearly somebody in the council got a nice backhander
Enjoyed that and I'm glad you agree about the M85. Given the A85 still runs to Dundee, the road never really changed number, just stuck another over the top so it can remain M85. About a decade ago, that viewing point was still open and it was a comically depressing walk, completely enclosed in a metal cage and covered in barbed wire. Glenfarg is the most interesting part of the M90s history as they really didn't need to axe the railway. I made a video about the Glenfarg tunnels about 9 years ago and there's lots of history unique to those tunnels. It's difficult to spot due to the trees but there's a second viaduct just along from the north tunnel as well, just before you reach the unclassified road.
My dad was on the very last car ferry on the Forth before the Forth Road Bridge opened to traffic.... when he was young in the 1940s, he remembers the summer crossings being crazy, with planks of wood used to wedge an extra car up between the funnels - no elfin safety then lol! As a child, we used the bridge every weekend when heading up to visit family in Kinross, and the very distinct "therump, therump, therump" sound a car made on the bridge road surface is one of my rather odd, but happy, childhood memories lol!
I got done on that M90, M85, A85 split road stupid thing.... thought I just couldn't drive but nice to know you've researched it and it is just a cockup of a junction.
First time commenting on a vlog of yours but defo one that interests me as my brother lives near Aberdeen so the last bit of the M90 that crosses the river Tay plus the previous weird split junction I travel on regularly do interesting to know it’s history plus loved the one you did on the M74 so keep up the good work 😊
Watching a vid about the M90 Motorway, get treated to lovely footage of the Forth Rail Bridge WITH A STEAM TRAIN CROSSING IT. How wonderful thank you so much.
I drove this way today and for the first time in a while I paid attention to it, didn't even know it was this week's video. I actually took the Kirkliston route to remind myself how ridiculous the old motorway stopping dead at a roundabout that led onto a single carriageway route used to be.
The Broxden roundabout is the centre of the Scottish road network. With the exception of Dunfermline (Scotlands ancient but newest city) , all Scotland's cities are signposted: A9 North to Inverness; A93 East to Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen; A9 south: Stirling and Glasgow and M90 south: Edinburgh.
Unfortunately, now that Dunfermline has had an upgrade to city status, that quirky little fact about all Scotland cities being signposted there is no longer true
The junction at 7:27 is how most interstate highway junctions in the USA work, at least in non-urban areas. The flyover (overpass) connects two sets of sliproads (on and off ramps) as well as allowing the other road to cross over the interstate. Not elegant, but workmanlike, and they get the job done where traffic isn't too heavy.
Cpmments: 1 Queensfery Crossing not Queensferry Bridge 2. Forth Bridge not Forth Rail Bridge 3. The section of the M90 south of Junction 5 that now has hard shouklders was originally built with emergency lay-bys. The hard shoulders were added ay a layer date.
I agree! the A14 is not what it was meant to be - it ended up being cobbled together from existing roads. The trip to places like Norwich is better than it used to be, but a 'proper' A14 as originally conceived would be better!
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11 million vehicles a day is a bit of a stretch isn't it. I think I meant to say per year :D either way.. a lot of vehicles.
100K Subs 👍
keep that up,
and yer soon have 11 MILLION subscribers.
Over 127 vehicles per second would be quite a sight to see.
Was thinking if the M90 that goes from Junction 10 to Junction 12 could be renumbered as the M901 or A9(M) Perth Western Spur motorway. And congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers. 😁
We'll have to accept your first answer, I'm afraid.
Absolutely spot on about chargeable green spaces built on green spaces. 👏👏👏
Yeah, was not expecting such deep satire in the middle of this. great.
@@stevecarter8810 Jon always has epic dry humour.
Yeah turning a space people use to get away from it all into a tourist destination and having £5 parking charges ( don’t be silly it couldn’t be free).
Congratulations on 100K! Have some funny money!
For any train fans, it's the LMS Jubilee Class 5690 Leander going over the Forth.
Huge congrats on 100K subs
Most of the motorway curve at Craigend is 694m in radius, the same as at Balmanno Hill, but part of it at the southern end reduces, for only about 200m, to 520 m., probably the tightest anywhere in the UK. The gradient uphill to Broxden is almost 5%, and downhill almost 6%, the steepest in mainland UK. It was a very challenging place to construct a complex interchange. I did the layout design - 150 pages of co-ordinate geometry calculations- no computers back then (1968-69). Other colleagues designed the seven bridges.
Nice one. Presumably the original railway alignment took a different route to avoid these gradients. I actually travelled on this line on the way to Dundee, as a lad, back in the 60's.
@@James-gf9jl The railway from Glenfarg would have entered Perth via the still in use Moncreiffe Tunnel, below the interchange, without gradient issues, I imagine. Coming down from Glenfarg to Strathearn the gradient appears to have been 1 in 75.
My dad worked for Tarmac at the time, and helped "test" the new road by going down it in an artic lorry (they actually went north down the southbound carriageway as the n/b one wasn't finished). At one point the tractor unit was in a different lane from the trailer, so after that they decided to install the "HGVs engage low gear" signs up. Or so his story goes!
@@James-gf9jl Yes, it does, and the route of it is still there along with some towers of an old bridge outside Bridge of Earn that was demolished as part of the motorway construction.
What an absolute banger of a motorway, cheers Jon. Congrats on 100K!
Good one - script really Fast & Furious!
I think the segment on "Wellness Centres" should go out as a short
Yes, an absolutely brilliant spot-on bit of sarcasm.
Where do I send the bill for this endorsement, by the way?
I mean, to quote Austin Powers, "yay, capitalism..."
Yay, capitalism. Especially when the reclamation of the land after the mining was probably paid for with public funds, and now it will probably be sold to the wellness wankers for less than the cost of the reclamation. If two capitalists profit, does that make this an example of the trickle down effect?
Little Stephen hurts himself 🤣
Classic
I live in South Florida but I was on the M90 this time last week on vacation with the wife..... Such a beautiful country.... CONGRATULATIONS ON 100K Jon!
Thank you 🇬🇧
Fun fact about junction 12, it sign posts every Scottish city, local road to Perth, A9N to Inverness, M90 for Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, and A9S to Stirling and Glasgow.
Nope. Dunfermline.
@@bobbyclark6116 everyone knows that's not a city and doesn't give a shit about recent ceremonial proceedings
On my first visit to Scotland. While crossing the queens ferry bridge. The rail bridge was pointed out to me. Being in the haze of 10 hours of flight time. Including what seemed an unreasonable small plane with propellers from Dublin. I thought that thing can not be real. Looks like some kinda steampunk fairytale bridge. A couple days latter I was able to ride across it. Being a railroader from the states. It was simply amazing to see it and ride across it. I have worked on and rode across many rail bridges here in that states and nothing compares.
It never fails to surprise me how few bridges there are like that one.
I live 15mins away and I think that very few people that use it regularly really appreciate how unique it is.
You should see what was nearly built instead, it was fate that we got this one in the end.
Sinead O'Conner wrote a song about it.
Always thought of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City as railroad mega-engineering as art.
Scotland's Eiffel Tower.
All the railway bridges in the UK have a number except this one. It's simply referred to as "The Bridge".
You are very talented are putting together a slick dialogue with the change in locations of the video.
Nice one, thanks for watching!
You just hit 100K subscribers. Congratulations.
Three bridges over the Forth, each built in a different century and each an engineering marvel in their day.
The Wellness Park was originally designed by landscape artist Charles Jenks. Unfortunately Scottish Coal went bust and the project was never fully completed.
The village of lassoddie disappeared when the open cast was opened.
Opening 2104, the fourth Forth crossing, maybe some sort of high speed rail link!
The engineering marvel of 1964 (the first road bridge) didn't stand the test of time however, as it is already falling apart.
100k subscribers! 🍾Whoop whoop!! When you first stated you wanted to get to 100k I admired your ambition but doubted it would actually happen, but here we are! 🙂
The road renumbering that you mentioned was done so that the 90 number linked Scotland's second third & fourth largest cities (Edinburgh - Dundee - Aberdeen) using Motorways and dual carriageways. Before that the road was a mishmash of numbers. When driving from Edinburgh to Dundee and Aberdeen the Motorway makes sense.
I've crossed over the Friarton Bridge a couple of times and one of them was southbound, in a Cupra, with a... 'spirited' driver behind the wheel. In a blizzard/freezing rain. Unfortunately it collects a lot of standing water, usually partially frozen, and I kid you not, there were four Merc/BMW/Audi things presumably all rear-wheel drive, planted facewards separately in the central reservation. I presume they caught a gust of wind in the blizzard and didn't correct properly, or couldn't, because of their driving style and chosen configuration. Fortunately my spirited driver had a bit more right foot discretion and 4WD so we made it to our date at Edinburgh Napier alive, by which time of course, it was sunny...
Side note - why does anyone in Scotland drive RWD? It's well known back in the Welsh Valleys that when it snows, all the BMW drivers go out seeking the nearest tree to crash into within 5 minutes of leaving home.
My friend was a surveyor on the Queensferry crossing while the pylons were being constructed. She had to work night shift because she was at the top of the towers and was afraid of heights.
Missing coal mine location:
Pause the video at 6:02
Directly under the "o" in the caption for Netherbeath Road, just north of the railway, there is a small scar, which appears to be a former open quarry, and is linked to the abandoned road by a track up the western side of the tree line.
The open cast mine was big occupying a number of fields. Fife council had excellent track record of making former opencast sites returned to agricultural and forestry.
It was big i remember being taken there for a school trip in either 1994 or 1993
Great video. Grandparents live Queensferry. Perfect timing with the steam train.
Btw the new bridge is called the Queensferry Crossing not Queensferry Bridge.
Interesting fact, it’s the only location in the world where there is a bridge from the last three centuries are side by side.
100K subscribers. Well done, Jon. Happy for you.
Jon you are really close to 100k. I think this week might be the week
It just happened.
Awesome video mate. How junctions 4 and 5 of the M90 are laid out, is pretty much how every freeway junction is built here in Perth, Western Australia. Maybe the original designers were inspired by the motorway built to Perth, Scotland.
That train coming over the railroad bridge is being pulled by the LMS Jubilee Class 5690 Leander (BR No. 45690). 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Jubilee_Class_5690_Leander Cool! 😎
3:05 Omgomgomg!!! 😭🥹😭🥹😭🥹
I think the M90 is the UK's most beautiful motorway. From the Stunning Queensferry crossing with the views to the other bridges, approaching and crossing it is amazing. Then you've got the Lomondhills and Loch Leven. The Valley with Glenfarg, is beautiful (pity it's got a motherway in it), leading to views over the Earn valley and the first glimpse of the highlands. Even the friarton bridge offers a stunning view of Kinnoul hill, it looks like you're driving into a vast green tree wall as you come to the bridge from the south. Yes, the motorway is underspecified and confusing, but it has so much going for it
Another outstanding video which demonstrates why 100K subscribers is well justified. Here’s to the next milestone. Well done Jon. 👏👏👍😀
"Enjoy your week whatever it is you get up to".
Well Jon, funny you should say that as I'll be traveling the length of the M90 up to Pitlochry for the week.
5:43 you crack me up John. I dont know why this bit had me in stitches 😂
2:58 What a LUCK! :D
Wonderful shots of the Flying Scotsman over the Forth Bridge. What luck!
Deffo not the Fying Scotsman looked like a Jubilee class. 🙂
@@syphonmaster1 It is Leander on it way to Aberdeen
Nice to see the abandoned Pottiehill tunnels get a mention. Well worth a walk-through.
did he though? I think he was feart.
Good viaducts at both ends of the walk through the tunnels - and a pop in to the Beinn Inn at the end - just down the road from me in Newburgh
silver play button incoming. Congratulations, Jon
Congrats on the 100k subs. I think the collection of junction 1B, 1C, and 2 must be the highest concentration of junctions anywhere on the motorway network - 3 junctions in ~1 mile, slightly higher than the at least 1.5 miles apart that they are meant to be.
And the northbound gap between 1c entry and 2 exit must surely be the smallest gap between entry and exit on the motorway network.
I grew up near Bridge Of Earn and i remember when they built the stretch north of Glenfarg. I remember seeing the rock getting blasted away from the end of Balmanno Hill
I lived in Scotland during the Queensferry Bridge construction. I used to regularly get the Aberdeen to London train back to my home town and watched them go from river bed foundations to what we see today. I moved back down sooth before i saw it open though.
The Forth Rail Bridge is indeed an iconic sight known all across the world.
As a Scottish person I love to see it, whether crossing over it on a train or viewing it from a motor vehicle.
We are very fortunate to have the 3 bridges all going across the River Forth from Edinburgh to Fife now.
YESSSSS 100000 SUBS. Well done Dave!
Indeed, the Forth Road Bridge is still in use but only really for buses and taxis and maybe even Emergency Service vehicles such as an ambulance on a blue-light call.
Another great fascinating episode Jon. …… and a huge congratulations in the 100k Club! 🎉🍻🎉🎊👍
I never knew about that quarry! I think too many folk are more concerned with the Jobby factory over the road and it's smell. The Kelty turn off slip roads are awful, many an accident and you practically pull onto to the crossing road to see anything. Cheers again John for amazing info of a road I use daily! ❤
One of the best channels on youtube hands down, keep up the magnificent work!!
Week 31 of they year guilty pleasure…… Thank you
This motorway will take some beating for scenery and remarkableness - you captured it beautifully!
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers - I'm proud to say I've been here since (quite close to) the beginning 😁
Bigger, longer, wider, stronger... Excellent! 😃
Also packed with interesting content. Who knew the M90 had so much to offer?!
What was that funny conga line of oddly shaped lorries crossing the railway bridge?! The front one seemed to be on fire! Crazy... anyway, back to the motorway :)
The railway bridge is just called the Forth Bridge. The new bridge is the Queensferry Crossing.
Awesome catch of the historic train crossing that historic bridge. Great video!
I've spent best part of 40 years driving on these exact roads ..... so much about them I didn't know 🤓.... I've also found some new places to go for a walk .... 😎
100K......Congrats! I never knew Scotland has so many Motorways.
This is the one I was looking for. The place names are familiar.
In Canada, the exit numbers are numbered by the km number, so there's none of that A, B, C to worry about.
This is the only theme music that I don't fast forward through, I can't get enough of it.
Sometimes you just think road-planners should be taken away and given a good slappin for the complete mish-mash and nonsense they have perpetrated on us. Scotland seems to have not just taken one biscuit, but several packets in this regard. (shakes head). Great video Jon. Hope you are enjoying your time in Scotland.
Are you aware of; changing volumes, budgets and other infrastructure demands?
@@jamieokane989 Yes. But having not even half-finished schemes, renumbering making navigating confusing, doesnt benefit anybody. Scotland isnt alone in this. Just seems to have a lot that got left on the table.
It's good to see my childhood haunts in video (an even see my old house in Inverkeithing on a couple of occasions). Lots of happy memories running around that part of the world. I have also walked the Glenfarg railway (or what's left) well worth the bimble.
11 million vehicles a day and by 2006 had doubled? Crikey!
He lied
Congratulations on 100K subs
A friend who used to travel by rail between Edinburgh and Perth via the Glenfarg route in the 1950s and early 1960s told me that it was a very underused service for some reason and he wasn't surprised it got the chop with the Beeching cuts. Nowadays, Perth would have been seen as a dormitory city for people who work in Edinburgh and were prepared to travel 40 miles to work by train, given the price of houses in Auld Reekie.
P.S. At 0:23 Kirkliston is pronounced 'Kirk-liston', with the stress on both the first two syllables, not 'Kirkulstone'!
Beeching didn't propose closing the line, he earmarked it for retention, but creating single track working north of Cowdenbeath, which is why it didn't close in the mid 60s but the early 70s. The Scottish Office wanted the trackbed for cost saving and engineering purposes, especially after the collapse of the Masterton viaduct on 22 June 1962.
Brilliant video mate, Friarton bridge gives me the shits every time I cross.
Keep it reel mate!
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M90 Kelty bypass (from beyond J2 to just before J5) was also built without hard shoulders, but they were added later. If you look carefully at the tarmac on the hard shoulders around the emergency telephones, you may be able to see traces of the original lay-bys showing through.
J5 to J8 was built as unreinforced concrete carriageway, so adding shoulders was deemed too difficult, even though space had been left for them.
Congratulations on 100k John, you totally deserve it. And today's video was fun to watch, thank you :)
Living in Dundee, this is my local motorway. I regularly drive from the A90 around Perth to the roundabout at the end, which is the northernmost motorway journey possible in the UK: the second most northern junction to the northernmost junction. It must be a candidate for being the most scenic motorway in the UK though.
Sidenote on the A9000, the old bridge is now only accessible to non-motorway traffic, buses and taxis.
As usual secrets of the motorway has been really interesting and educational and as the M90 is in my neck of the woods I have been waiting for this one. Chuffed you got to the Glenfarg tunnels, I was hoping that would be a secret you would uncover!
Lived in Scotland (Edinburgh) both original bridges referred to as
Forth road bridge and forth bridge (never rail bridge )😊
Live in fife, always been Forth Road Bridge and Forth Rail Bridge to me 🤣🤣
You are correct the "Rail" bridge is and has always been the Forth Bridge or as known on the rail network as just 'The Bridge'
@@robinhadleythe only rail bridge not to have a number I believe
Concrete road panels including steeply banked circular slip roads are what I remember. Interesting times on a motorbike in winter...
Brilliant. Fantastic bridges - and what a stroke of luck with the steam locomotive...
Couldn't have put it better about The Walnut Whips - for "Wellness Centres" read Profits. Damn this country - any place you can chill out for free is being replaced by something made for profit.
Congrats on the 100K subs - although it still shows 99.9K onn my screen. Still waiting for you to review the motorways of Norfolk & Suffolk... ;)
well done on reaching 100,000, ive travelled this stretch of motor way quite a few times and many a good nights rest at Kinross
Happy 100k subs Jon
Always wondered why the A823M was motorway! Great video!
My dad helped construct the Glenfarg section of the M90 in the 1970s. They used to use the old railway tunnels as a shortcut from their site offices at Bridge of Earn to the site itself. It's also often asked why there's no exit at Glenfarg. The answer is that the villagers were asked if they wanted one, and they didn't. So there isn't.
We looked into using the railway tunnels for one of the motorway carriageways, but not for long. I was involved with M90 and later A9 layout design.
Congratulations on 100K!!!!
Finally got to 100k! Congratulations
The Interstate loop road that goes around the Kansas City city centre has junction numbers 35A-Y (Except i and o).
Fantastic, happy to see where i am and even my house in one of your drone shots.
Also your spot on about these wellness centres, that site was meant to be open to the public for free but clearly somebody in the council got a nice backhander
Enjoyed that and I'm glad you agree about the M85. Given the A85 still runs to Dundee, the road never really changed number, just stuck another over the top so it can remain M85. About a decade ago, that viewing point was still open and it was a comically depressing walk, completely enclosed in a metal cage and covered in barbed wire.
Glenfarg is the most interesting part of the M90s history as they really didn't need to axe the railway. I made a video about the Glenfarg tunnels about 9 years ago and there's lots of history unique to those tunnels. It's difficult to spot due to the trees but there's a second viaduct just along from the north tunnel as well, just before you reach the unclassified road.
Glen Frag,
Thanks for this, in my sort of neck. Of the woods.
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My dad was on the very last car ferry on the Forth before the Forth Road Bridge opened to traffic.... when he was young in the 1940s, he remembers the summer crossings being crazy, with planks of wood used to wedge an extra car up between the funnels - no elfin safety then lol! As a child, we used the bridge every weekend when heading up to visit family in Kinross, and the very distinct "therump, therump, therump" sound a car made on the bridge road surface is one of my rather odd, but happy, childhood memories lol!
I got done on that M90, M85, A85 split road stupid thing.... thought I just couldn't drive but nice to know you've researched it and it is just a cockup of a junction.
I love your sense of humour.
Well done with 100k, you deserved every one
Was the Forth Road Bridge really designed for traffic levels of eleven million vehicles per day? Struth!
Haha. Spotted
First time commenting on a vlog of yours but defo one that interests me as my brother lives near Aberdeen so the last bit of the M90 that crosses the river Tay plus the previous weird split junction I travel on regularly do interesting to know it’s history plus loved the one you did on the M74 so keep up the good work 😊
Watching a vid about the M90 Motorway, get treated to lovely footage of the Forth Rail Bridge WITH A STEAM TRAIN CROSSING IT. How wonderful thank you so much.
Congrats on getting to 100 thousands subscribers, John. All the best to you mate, Oh and another great vid!
Congratulations on 100k, I've been with you since 3k. Great achievement.
I drove this way today and for the first time in a while I paid attention to it, didn't even know it was this week's video.
I actually took the Kirkliston route to remind myself how ridiculous the old motorway stopping dead at a roundabout that led onto a single carriageway route used to be.
I drive this motorway twice a week and had no idea about most of the stuff you talked about. Definitely want to explore the abandoned railway now!
Congratulations 🎊 on the 100k. Totally deserved. Bravo
Brilliant 👍 there's far more to these roads than traffic and tarmac, it's all the gems that surround them! Thanks again
The Broxden roundabout is the centre of the Scottish road network. With the exception of Dunfermline (Scotlands ancient but newest city) , all Scotland's cities are signposted: A9 North to Inverness; A93 East to Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen; A9 south: Stirling and Glasgow and M90 south: Edinburgh.
Unfortunately, now that Dunfermline has had an upgrade to city status, that quirky little fact about all Scotland cities being signposted there is no longer true
The junction at 7:27 is how most interstate highway junctions in the USA work, at least in non-urban areas. The flyover (overpass) connects two sets of sliproads (on and off ramps) as well as allowing the other road to cross over the interstate. Not elegant, but workmanlike, and they get the job done where traffic isn't too heavy.
gratz on 100k subs m8y keep it up :)
This is one of your best films. The drone work and set up shots are wonderful.
Love this and very close to home! If you find yourself close to Brechin, just off the A90, will buy you lunch
Cpmments:
1 Queensfery Crossing not Queensferry Bridge
2. Forth Bridge not Forth Rail Bridge
3. The section of the M90 south of Junction 5 that now has hard shouklders was originally built with emergency lay-bys. The hard shoulders were added ay a layer date.
Excellent as always, love the comment about little Stephen hurting himself, and of course the Scottish bagpipes version of the theme tune at the start
Thanks a lot mate!
Congrats on 100K! Very well deserved, appreciate all the top quality content!
Congrats on hitting 100K John! I'm really excited for the M8 next!😃
Congratulations on 100k. Most well deserved ❤
100K !!!!. Yes !!!. Well deserved. looking forward to the "Special" as well as the weekly fix.
Hi Jon, would love to see a video on the A14 Cheers and keep up the good work :)
I agree! the A14 is not what it was meant to be - it ended up being cobbled together from existing roads. The trip to places like Norwich is better than it used to be, but a 'proper' A14 as originally conceived would be better!