I wonder if people appreciate not just the content, but the clever way you keep the sound of your voice levelled consistently throughout the video, despite constantly changing venues and background noise levels. Well played Sir!
Haha its still genius in context, 98% of YT is bile, there's a few that stand out a mile, this guys definitely one of em, boldandbankrupt is another completely different one.
@@Rhythm24inch wasn't he allegedly lying in order to be a sex pest? Saying he was rich ect while going to poor Russian villages and then having sex with women who thought he wanted to marry them
@@lukesargeant7558 😂🤣 I have no idea, never heard that one before, I'm guessing he's not the first guy to do that though. I was on about his video content though not the content of his pants!
@@jonathanpork-sausage617 don’t even get me started on that subject buddy. Hence, the crap week. Need some serious distraction from all the other stuff going on under our noses.
"they clearly weren't hanging around". Built in a year. Meanwhile in 2023, there's been a barrier up and a 50mph limit for road works for over a year... On one corner of the A19.
This is just a comment that adds one to your comment count because every comment counts. Oh, and I also hit that specific button, because I liked it. Been subscribed for over a year (including the ding), but somehow I never saw this one when it first came out. The algorithm fed it to me today. 'Worsley Braided Interchange' is a phrase I never knew I needed. Thankyou John, please continue to do what you do.
I was on the other side of Rivington reservior recently and someone told me about Liverpool Castle. Thought they were joking haha, clearly not. Interesting to learn it's connection to the Rivington terrace gardens.
This brews going cold :-D also Lord Leverhulme built a massive bungalow atop of Rivington pike which overlooked the castle and reservoir which then got burnt down by the suffragette movement, it had a sprung dance floor and Japanese waterfall gardens which still exists, they're beautiful! Cheers for all these videos dude if you see a silver audi pomping at you it's probably me lol
As someone who has to use the M61, to merge onto the M60 to get to work in Manchester, the traffic (as seen in the drone shots) is no joke from 6.30am till around 11am, don't get me wrong its a satisfying basket weave design, but I feel like that motorway network wasn't designed to support the majority of Greater Manchester's traffic. Loving the Videos John, so excited to see the M60.
That's because the M62 relief road was never built. The M60 section between Simister and Eccles is carrying the traffic of two motorways (local "ring road" traffic and long distance Lancs/Yorks traffic), and the Worsley bit is only three lanes in the anticlockwise direction.
The traffic was the same 10 years ago when I used to have to commute from Preston to Cheadle each day and nothing has changed since. They spent years working on the managed motorway on the m60 and it made zero difference to the queues on the m61 southbound. It’s an impossible journey to do. The m62 needs it’s own by bypass of the whole section.
Fascinating stuff. When i was doing my apprenticeship in 1970/75 a friend of mine worked for the Ministry of Transport, motorways section. Quite often he would go out on fact finding tours of different bits of roads all over the UK and tell me tales as to what was planned, or being built or going around. Most users just drive on them and never consider the logistics of either construction or the planning so that all bits join together seemlessly.
As someone who lived in Chorley from birth in 87 till 2018. Preston Leyland and Chorley are treated like a city in the way the councils block together on things. Though Preston still eats up a nearly 90% of the funds
Botany Bay used to have a few ex military equipment stored there. Including 2 tanks which could be seen from the motorway. Was one if those things I'd look out for as a kid whenever we was passing.
Love the ending. Just the right amount of cheese. I don't know how you've made videos about the motorway so interesting but keep it up. Love your style.
As a Leigh resident when coming from the north/east on the M60, I have to pass the M61 exit then take the next slip road for the A580, at which point without fail all hell breaks loose on the continuing M60. The A580 slip road comes back alongside the M60 but with a barrier between the two, so you get to sail past the three lanes of standing traffic that 90% of the time you somehow never got caught in, then loop under it to finally join the A580. (Also a couple of Christmases ago driving home, no snow at all on the M60, foot-deep by the sides of the A580, what's THAT all about?!) Anyway this isn't Secrets of The A-Roads so I'll sod off. Love the outro 👍👍
The funny thing about this is, that I've just gone and checked the road layout on google maps (I'm familiar with the area, I just don't know what it looks like from above so I don't know which rods lead where). And even on Google maps, you're on the East Lancs slip-road and the M60 to the right is "three lanes of standing traffic". North-West England being deprived of infrastructure as usual...
Looking at it here, the Worsley braid is madness. I loved, lived and worked in the area for a while and used to travel between here and the midlands fairly regularly. Don’t think I ever took the same route twice. Went though there again for the first time in ages this week but in a truck this time. First time I’ve been through in the truck and I actually broke out the sat nav for the journey. I don’t normally bother but knew I kind of had to get it right 😂
I've been waiting for this one. My local motorway. Liverpool Castle is just a short walk away and was the place to hang out with a few cans when I was a teenager. Loving the videos.
wow, that preston, chorley and horwitch supercity is for me like dejavu because in my country soviet union was planning to do something similar thing. They wanted connect 6 cities in to one huge metropol.
With that lovely catchphrase end music I was expecting the voiceover guy to tell me I'd won a weekend cycling trip in the Midlands or a Teasmaid, imagine my disappointment when I found out I hadn't :(
@@dave_h_8742 speaking as Jon's accountant I can confirm that he is in the pay of NASA. Luckily for me, Jon isn't the brightest spark so I get to kept 110% of the NASA payments. That helps fund my spherical scepticism...
Thanks for the shout out mate. Glad you managed to squeeze all the info into the video. I now appreciate how much preparation work must go into these videos as it must have taken a while to get between the locations. For example, at 2:50 you are directly behind my house and that footpath there takes some finding 🤣
Ayyyyy love that you've made it to one of my local motorways that i use quite often. Fun to learn about things ive never really known about and ive never actually thought about how complex the start of the motorway really is even though i use it pretty much every day 😅
The larger Preston area super-city also explains the size of Preston Bus Station for the number of bays as more routes to the new housing of the enlarged area were expected, but never came into being
What a coincidence, we were at Liverpool Castle yesterday! Yes Im fairly local and use these roads and Mways you have in this video. Nice to see this here and it's little secrets put out there for all to see. The big interchange is a difficult one to master for some, as the traffic coming from the M60 joins the M61 were the 4 lanes are, you see the odd motorists faces full of fear. These 2 junctions fill with water when it rains hard and the hard shoulder, 1st and 2nd lanes become standing ponds of danger. On early evenings anyone wanting to head down anticlockwise M61 at the interchange will come across standing traffic from junction 4 right round junction 3, usually I will be heading Clockwise on the M61 and will go past the stationary traffic. Busy times of the day can see junction 5 become grid locked, which fouls up the surrounding A roads and similarly Junction 6 does the same with many vehicles coming from the retail park, which on the opposite side has a business sector with EON and other companies there who all leave at the same time causing madness heading towards Junction 6. After Junction 6 it is a nicer Motorway for a while, as you climb towards Chorley. I was coming down the M61 one day in torrential rain, big thunderstorm had hit the area. I was on my Motorbike and had to use the middle lane to avoid the deepest water, this caused cars to try and pass me. I remember the huge lightening which lit up the entire sky, the road and surrounding fields, I wish I had a camera running at that time as it was beautiful. I got soaked through as vehicles passing would launch tidal waves over me as I descended the hill, what fun I had that day! Thanks for the shenanigans!
Heading northbound, the whole M60/M61 interchange situation would be a lot more tolerable if people didn't panic & try & swap lanes as soon as they hit the bend. You've got the best part of another mile to do it safely but everybody appears to shit their pants & think they've got to get across as soon as they hit the junction.
Another great video, lots of motorway info plus castles that are not castles, unbuilt junctions and non-existent megacities. All served up with John's brilliant deadpan delivery and topped off with an epic, cheesy 1990's daytime TV aerial departure shot. Masterful entertainment.
Cheers "--- JON ---" Watching a day late, but I did laugh at the ending 🙂 I follow you videos with Google maps on another monitor and keep pausing to explore virtually on Streetview, as though I was there.
Good to hear your views on design standards. The castle "folly" clearly parallels the nature of motorway building in terms of unfinished projects, retired planners and dead engineers.
The Worsley Braided Interchange got the nickname ‘Spaghetti Junction’ when it was completed. A couple of years later the Gravelly Hill Interchange opened in Birmingham and stole the Spaghetti Junction moniker. Naughty Brummies.
I use the junction quite often and live a few miles away. I've never heard it referred to as either of those names. My nephew, a writer, used the term in a book he wrote a few years ago. That's the first I ever heard it.
It's amazing how often I keep finding myself watching this guy, I can think of no situation where I would not only willingly subject myself to motorway trivia but sit in rapt attention. I suspect black magic is involved and I will be calling a Witcher.
I've been waiting for this for a long time as I live near the M61 and I coincidentally went to the Liverpool Castle last week! I had to do a little research and realised it was fake. Great vid👍
Your name is John and you have had a good week and please never deviate from your excellent introductory patter; it 's cheerful tone and it's polite if rhetorical inquiry always makes me smile and is somehow reassuring.
I live in Horwich, about a mile from Liverpool Castle. It’s one of my daily dog walks. I also have a few videos on my channel about the castle and the history of Lord Leverhulme’s Rivington.
Now you're on my turf (ha ha). Used to work at Botany Bay when it was a truck sales and servicing company (Gilbraith Commercials) in the mid 1980's. The business shrank and disappeared after the death of one of its totalitarian overlords. It was and currently still is an impressive building but I fear the millennial pencil d1cks will soon change all that.
Hate that fecking junction trying to get over with cars doing 90 is terrifying and i live by switch island ! Maybe a flyover from Maghull to Dunnings bridge rd ?
Just a quick point, Botany Bay was a mill as said, it then became a chicken rearing factory with chicks in ‘deep litter’ and each time the age of the chicks increased they were moved using the mill lifts to the next floor down. Finally leaving the place when fully grown to the processing plant. Then as part of Unipart motor factors and DAF. It became the shopping complex but DAF trucks have permission to store new unfinished trucks there for a time before the redevelopment starts.
Awesome video and about time someone did something informative about the Motorways in this area. As a lad who lives near where all 3 Motorways (M6/M61/M65) meet, I've actually learnt something. Thank You & keep up the excellent work.
The north terminus of the M61 joining the M6 used to be a game of chicken against a railway bridge with too-short slip roads which merged just before that bridge. There were inevitably traffic jams back along the M61 until the M6 was widened and the junction enlarged.
Great video as always. Very local to where I grew up. That M61/a666 junction is a total mess and horrendous to drive and change lanes. Looking forward to a mammoth M62 episode - lots of history. Looking forward to coverage of long-gone Burtonwood airfield - now covered in monstrous warehouses. Blot on the landscape. Warrington council should be ashamed.
You're getting close to the greatest motorway in the country, The M62, can't wait for that one! Great channel, love the sarcasm and humour, keep up the good work.
that ending was perfect.
I get childishly excited whenever he covers somewhere near me
I’m trying to sneak “Worsley braided interchange” into every conversation today.
I wonder if people appreciate not just the content, but the clever way you keep the sound of your voice levelled consistently throughout the video, despite constantly changing venues and background noise levels. Well played Sir!
I didn't think anyone could make motorways interesting...
I was wrong.
Well played good sir.
The genius of making the mundane enthralling. This channel is something.
Yes, agreed
But would you want to travel four hours in a car with this guy?
Haha its still genius in context, 98% of YT is bile, there's a few that stand out a mile, this guys definitely one of em, boldandbankrupt is another completely different one.
@@Rhythm24inch
Try ‘techmoan’
@@Rhythm24inch wasn't he allegedly lying in order to be a sex pest? Saying he was rich ect while going to poor Russian villages and then having sex with women who thought he wanted to marry them
@@lukesargeant7558 😂🤣 I have no idea, never heard that one before, I'm guessing he's not the first guy to do that though. I was on about his video content though not the content of his pants!
I live in Preston and work in Manchester so for the past 20 years I've certainly given that Motorway some use
Mate your right shoe is doing a good impression of the UKs standard road surface. More holes than a tory explanation of a garden party.
I ain't even British but i love these
Genius use of the 80's Catchphrase theme, with a winding out camera shot used in many programs of the same era! Very nicely done mate 👏👏👌👌
Ah, knew it was familiar but couldn't remember what
I completely forgot about puddletown pirates. Thanks for the memories
I spent many an hour there with my son - birthday parties, etc
Neither do I drive a car nor live in UK but somehow I subscribed and watch these regularly! that's how good the channel is
Crap week, but your videos always make me feel a lot better. Thank you for what you do.
Same here. Crap day. Had egg and chips for lunch, watched a video about excess deaths, then this! Saved it! Hope the coming week is better for you.
@@jonathanpork-sausage617 don’t even get me started on that subject buddy. Hence, the crap week. Need some serious distraction from all the other stuff going on under our noses.
Average Brit😫
@@JMH7506 Yes to all that. Life is like some bad dystopian TV series from the 1980s. Go steady!
@@jonathanpork-sausage617 by the way, I had egg and chips on Friday night. I share your passion buddy.
The A666 1.08, Devil of a road🤣 cheers John👍
Thanks a lot mate!
Coffee, castles and epic outro music - perfect Sunday
"they clearly weren't hanging around". Built in a year.
Meanwhile in 2023, there's been a barrier up and a 50mph limit for road works for over a year... On one corner of the A19.
I love the randomness of RUclips's suggestion algorithm - and I enjoyed this video too.
Thanks, there’s a lot of planning and effort gone into this vid 😊
This is just a comment that adds one to your comment count because every comment counts. Oh, and I also hit that specific button, because I liked it. Been subscribed for over a year (including the ding), but somehow I never saw this one when it first came out. The algorithm fed it to me today. 'Worsley Braided Interchange' is a phrase I never knew I needed. Thankyou John, please continue to do what you do.
Glad I stayed for the title music! There's a blast from the past
I was on the other side of Rivington reservior recently and someone told me about Liverpool Castle. Thought they were joking haha, clearly not. Interesting to learn it's connection to the Rivington terrace gardens.
This brews going cold :-D also Lord Leverhulme built a massive bungalow atop of Rivington pike which overlooked the castle and reservoir which then got burnt down by the suffragette movement, it had a sprung dance floor and Japanese waterfall gardens which still exists, they're beautiful! Cheers for all these videos dude if you see a silver audi pomping at you it's probably me lol
Such a lovely ending to this video. 👋
As someone who has to use the M61, to merge onto the M60 to get to work in Manchester, the traffic (as seen in the drone shots) is no joke from 6.30am till around 11am, don't get me wrong its a satisfying basket weave design, but I feel like that motorway network wasn't designed to support the majority of Greater Manchester's traffic.
Loving the Videos John, so excited to see the M60.
That's because the M62 relief road was never built. The M60 section between Simister and Eccles is carrying the traffic of two motorways (local "ring road" traffic and long distance Lancs/Yorks traffic), and the Worsley bit is only three lanes in the anticlockwise direction.
The traffic was the same 10 years ago when I used to have to commute from Preston to Cheadle each day and nothing has changed since. They spent years working on the managed motorway on the m60 and it made zero difference to the queues on the m61 southbound. It’s an impossible journey to do. The m62 needs it’s own by bypass of the whole section.
The section is doing 3 jobs
- main east west motorway
- Manchester ring road
- radial motorway
There's no way it can be anything except a nightmare
@@chicklechives isn’t this the blueprint for modern motorways?
@@chicklechives 100%. If ever there were a levelling up scheme required, sorting this stretch of road would be it.
Brilliant.
One of the best that was.
Thank you.
Fascinating stuff. When i was doing my apprenticeship in 1970/75 a friend of mine worked for the Ministry of Transport, motorways section. Quite often he would go out on fact finding tours of different bits of roads all over the UK and tell me tales as to what was planned, or being built or going around. Most users just drive on them and never consider the logistics of either construction or the planning so that all bits join together seemlessly.
Finishing up the vid at Denham Quarry love it
Love The ending of the video's. All those old TV theme tunes takes me back.
Nicely done.
Brilliant filming
As someone who lived in Chorley from birth in 87 till 2018. Preston Leyland and Chorley are treated like a city in the way the councils block together on things. Though Preston still eats up a nearly 90% of the funds
It's Sunday, and I'm watching a video about a road in another country, by a bloke who I'd actually share a pint with. I'm happy
Botany Bay used to have a few ex military equipment stored there. Including 2 tanks which could be seen from the motorway. Was one if those things I'd look out for as a kid whenever we was passing.
Botany Bay was the must fun place as a kid.
Yep, used to take my kids there and they loved it.
Wasn’t it just! It was such great fun 🙌🏼
Love the ending. Just the right amount of cheese.
I don't know how you've made videos about the motorway so interesting but keep it up. Love your style.
Your videos are great!
What a great video , well done.
As a Leigh resident when coming from the north/east on the M60, I have to pass the M61 exit then take the next slip road for the A580, at which point without fail all hell breaks loose on the continuing M60. The A580 slip road comes back alongside the M60 but with a barrier between the two, so you get to sail past the three lanes of standing traffic that 90% of the time you somehow never got caught in, then loop under it to finally join the A580. (Also a couple of Christmases ago driving home, no snow at all on the M60, foot-deep by the sides of the A580, what's THAT all about?!) Anyway this isn't Secrets of The A-Roads so I'll sod off. Love the outro 👍👍
I'd estimate the motorway network is big enough to last for several years of videos. But Secret A-Roads is not _too_ far off topic.
The funny thing about this is, that I've just gone and checked the road layout on google maps (I'm familiar with the area, I just don't know what it looks like from above so I don't know which rods lead where). And even on Google maps, you're on the East Lancs slip-road and the M60 to the right is "three lanes of standing traffic". North-West England being deprived of infrastructure as usual...
Looking at it here, the Worsley braid is madness. I loved, lived and worked in the area for a while and used to travel between here and the midlands fairly regularly. Don’t think I ever took the same route twice.
Went though there again for the first time in ages this week but in a truck this time. First time I’ve been through in the truck and I actually broke out the sat nav for the journey. I don’t normally bother but knew I kind of had to get it right 😂
A580 and A666 are basically motorways at the start
Fascinating! I never knew there was a “Liverpool Castle” 😀
I live about 5 miles from it, it’s an interesting place plus miles and miles of lovely walks.
RUclips Wirral Channel has a brief history
ruclips.net/video/rNqq-hAl_HM/видео.html
I run round rivington quite often and had no clue it even exists.
There's also a Leeds Castle, but it's in Kent. Go figure?
@@tonycutty598 I’ve seen the signage for it when I’ve been down that way.
Always an education
I've been waiting for this one. My local motorway. Liverpool Castle is just a short walk away and was the place to hang out with a few cans when I was a teenager. Loving the videos.
Another fantastic and informative video mate, just love binge watching and catching up on these.
Another great video.
I was born and raised in Worsley so this one is close to my heart. Eagerly awaiting the M63, erm, M60 episode.
I dont even know where to start with the m60!
@@AutoShenanigans Worsley!
@@AutoShenanigans Simister Island!!!
The thing I love about this series is the interesting historical context for why things are and the stuff around.
I get soo excited when i spot that there's a new video up. Thanks John for another exciting episode of secrets of the motorway. CHEERS! :)
Another good story of Motorway life and history. John, you are doing a great job.. Bob
wow, that preston, chorley and horwitch supercity is for me like dejavu because in my country soviet union was planning to do something similar thing. They wanted connect 6 cities in to one huge metropol.
With that lovely catchphrase end music I was expecting the voiceover guy to tell me I'd won a weekend cycling trip in the Midlands or a Teasmaid, imagine my disappointment when I found out I hadn't :(
Thanks Jon, I'm very well, and it's been a wicked, sweet, awesome week. Thanks for asking.
1:27 Take THAT flat-earthers 😂
They would have an excuse. He faked it as he's in NASA's pocket etc....
@@dave_h_8742 speaking as Jon's accountant I can confirm that he is in the pay of NASA. Luckily for me, Jon isn't the brightest spark so I get to kept 110% of the NASA payments.
That helps fund my spherical scepticism...
Thanks for the shout out mate.
Glad you managed to squeeze all the info into the video.
I now appreciate how much preparation work must go into these videos as it must have taken a while to get between the locations. For example, at 2:50 you are directly behind my house and that footpath there takes some finding 🤣
Ayyyyy love that you've made it to one of my local motorways that i use quite often. Fun to learn about things ive never really known about and ive never actually thought about how complex the start of the motorway really is even though i use it pretty much every day 😅
The larger Preston area super-city also explains the size of Preston Bus Station for the number of bays as more routes to the new housing of the enlarged area were expected, but never came into being
What a coincidence, we were at Liverpool Castle yesterday! Yes Im fairly local and use these roads and Mways you have in this video. Nice to see this here and it's little secrets put out there for all to see.
The big interchange is a difficult one to master for some, as the traffic coming from the M60 joins the M61 were the 4 lanes are, you see the odd motorists faces full of fear. These 2 junctions fill with water when it rains hard and the hard shoulder, 1st and 2nd lanes become standing ponds of danger.
On early evenings anyone wanting to head down anticlockwise M61 at the interchange will come across standing traffic from junction 4 right round junction 3, usually I will be heading Clockwise on the M61 and will go past the stationary traffic.
Busy times of the day can see junction 5 become grid locked, which fouls up the surrounding A roads and similarly Junction 6 does the same with many vehicles coming from the retail park, which on the opposite side has a business sector with EON and other companies there who all leave at the same time causing madness heading towards Junction 6. After Junction 6 it is a nicer Motorway for a while, as you climb towards Chorley.
I was coming down the M61 one day in torrential rain, big thunderstorm had hit the area. I was on my Motorbike and had to use the middle lane to avoid the deepest water, this caused cars to try and pass me. I remember the huge lightening which lit up the entire sky, the road and surrounding fields, I wish I had a camera running at that time as it was beautiful. I got soaked through as vehicles passing would launch tidal waves over me as I descended the hill, what fun I had that day!
Thanks for the shenanigans!
Heading northbound, the whole M60/M61 interchange situation would be a lot more tolerable if people didn't panic & try & swap lanes as soon as they hit the bend. You've got the best part of another mile to do it safely but everybody appears to shit their pants & think they've got to get across as soon as they hit the junction.
Another great video, lots of motorway info plus castles that are not castles, unbuilt junctions and non-existent megacities. All served up with John's brilliant deadpan delivery and topped off with an epic, cheesy 1990's daytime TV aerial departure shot. Masterful entertainment.
I think the closing music is catchphrase!?
Thanks!
Cheers "--- JON ---" Watching a day late, but I did laugh at the ending 🙂
I follow you videos with Google maps on another monitor and keep pausing to explore virtually on Streetview, as though I was there.
You have somehow become Britain's coolest geography teacher!!
That reminds me... I must get a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches.
Good to hear your views on design standards. The castle "folly" clearly parallels the nature of motorway building in terms of unfinished projects, retired planners and dead engineers.
The Worsley Braided Interchange got the nickname ‘Spaghetti Junction’ when it was completed. A couple of years later the Gravelly Hill Interchange opened in Birmingham and stole the Spaghetti Junction moniker. Naughty Brummies.
I use the junction quite often and live a few miles away. I've never heard it referred to as either of those names. My nephew, a writer, used the term in a book he wrote a few years ago. That's the first I ever heard it.
I don't know why but your vids are strangely comforting.
Nice to see my local area from another perspective Jon. That outro, with views around Denham Quarry, is the best I've ever seen. Fantastic! 👍
It's amazing how often I keep finding myself watching this guy, I can think of no situation where I would not only willingly subject myself to motorway trivia but sit in rapt attention. I suspect black magic is involved and I will be calling a Witcher.
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
Yay, one of the 4 motorways that are part of my daily commute.
I've been waiting for this for a long time as I live near the M61 and I coincidentally went to the Liverpool Castle last week! I had to do a little research and realised it was fake. Great vid👍
Fake mews lol!
Thanks John - top, spiffing, fabulous.....as usual.
"Say goodbye Mr Chips. He's waving!"
As a regular taxi service for a student in Lancaster.
I’m pleased to learn that the big building is Botany Bay Mill.
Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting 🧐
Your name is John and you have had a good week and please never deviate from your excellent introductory patter; it 's cheerful tone and it's polite if rhetorical inquiry always makes me smile and is somehow reassuring.
this man loves roads and we love him
I live in Horwich, about a mile from Liverpool Castle. It’s one of my daily dog walks. I also have a few videos on my channel about the castle and the history of Lord Leverhulme’s Rivington.
Came down there today - from M65 to the M60 - and no jams or hold-ups. Today was a good day.
Epic final drone shot is epic!
Another stonking episode, I love your vids......John, you da Man!!
Your channel is like what 90s TV with modern equipment would be like
You even own a 90s car
Thanks for entertaining us with more information about those motorways.
771000 subscribers … just amazing, Jon! Looking forward to both a million and the M62!
Wicked sweet awesome indeed. Thanks Jon
Bit disappointed you didn’t mention Horwich at junction 6 and it’s rich history with the rail network
Ah thanks for passing through my neck of the woods (Chorley), giving us a real insight into our M61. Learned a few things too!
The ending was so brilliantly cheesy it gave me flashbacks to 70s/80s America TV shows 🤣
Luved it 👍👍👍
Interesting video and interesting places , I'm watching from Devon
8:05 That sounds very close to the Catchphrase theme!
It's the original Catchphrase theme from 1986, and approaching forty years later it remains a banger of which Wall's would be proud.
It's the original version from back in the 80s
@@RaveTracks 🙋🏽….. I’m old enough to remember it 😂
@@Dan23_7 me too ha ha
I'm old enough to remember this theme. Roy Walker making that programme.
Sunday special 👍
I live in Chorley and miss Botany Bay as it was, we’d go regularly for a meal and check out the stores.
Now you're on my turf (ha ha). Used to work at Botany Bay when it was a truck sales and servicing company (Gilbraith Commercials) in the mid 1980's. The business shrank and disappeared after the death of one of its totalitarian overlords. It was and currently still is an impressive building but I fear the millennial pencil d1cks will soon change all that.
Pencil dicks... :D I lol'ed
And the fun of the criss crossing traffic from the M60 to the M61/A666. Pick a lane - any lane.
Hate that fecking junction trying to get over with cars doing 90 is terrifying and i live by switch island !
Maybe a flyover from Maghull to Dunnings bridge rd ?
@@dave_h_8742 Council Meeting: “It’s been at least a year since we last changed Switch Island, what should we do to it next?”
@@ipb1966 🤣
Flyover to brooms cross and return it to an island shape with lights on all but flyover and slip rds off flyover to A59
Just a quick point, Botany Bay was a mill as said, it then became a chicken rearing factory with chicks in ‘deep litter’ and each time the age of the chicks increased they were moved using the mill lifts to the next floor down. Finally leaving the place when fully grown to the processing plant.
Then as part of Unipart motor factors and DAF.
It became the shopping complex but DAF trucks have permission to store new unfinished trucks there for a time before the redevelopment starts.
Interesting! There's definitely a pun in there somewhere lol
I remember the owner used to have his helicopters on the carpark and wacky/ wonderful vehicles too
@@emmabh2166 when it became a shopper/ tourist venue there was the fuselage of a Sud Aviation Carvelle that could be entered.
Awesome video and about time someone did something informative about the Motorways in this area. As a lad who lives near where all 3 Motorways (M6/M61/M65) meet, I've actually learnt something.
Thank You & keep up the excellent work.
Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good week?
The north terminus of the M61 joining the M6 used to be a game of chicken against a railway bridge with too-short slip roads which merged just before that bridge. There were inevitably traffic jams back along the M61 until the M6 was widened and the junction enlarged.
Great video as always. Very local to where I grew up. That M61/a666 junction is a total mess and horrendous to drive and change lanes.
Looking forward to a mammoth M62 episode - lots of history. Looking forward to coverage of long-gone Burtonwood airfield - now covered in monstrous warehouses. Blot on the landscape. Warrington council should be ashamed.
Great to see you visited Denham Quarry in Brindle for the end shot… my home village, and my Mum grew up in the farm opposite 😊
You're getting close to the greatest motorway in the country, The M62, can't wait for that one! Great channel, love the sarcasm and humour, keep up the good work.
Yeah I should really get on and get the M62 done really :D
Thanks
Was up there last week heading north. Oh I hate that braided interchange so, so, so much
I remember the M61 being built. Like a new age had arrived ❤