Secrets of The Motorway - M61
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It's another jam packed episode where we take in the glorious M61 that runs from Manchester to Preston in that there Lancashire. We're definitely still in the North... Old Mill... check, Old coal mines... check, old castles... almost. I just need a Lancashire hot pot to finish it all of nicely.
We look at Botany Bay Mill... a wonderful structure soon to be redeveloped into something not as wonderful, does anyone remember Puddletown Pirates? There's also a lovely bridge that has a fairly unique feature.
There's all that and more in this weeks Secrets of the Motorway, I hope you enjoy it.
Shout out to @SiRhodesDriverTraining
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In this series we aim to explore what our motorway network is hiding. As we drive along at 70mph..ish...we simply just wouldn't be aware of what we're missing. This series aims to uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
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!
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 didn't think anyone could make motorways interesting...
I was wrong.
Well played good sir.
I get childishly excited whenever he covers somewhere near me
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.
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
that ending was perfect.
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
Coffee, castles and epic outro music - perfect Sunday
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.
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
I live in Preston and work in Manchester so for the past 20 years I've certainly given that Motorway some use
I ain't even British but i love these
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.
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
I’m trying to sneak “Worsley braided interchange” into every conversation today.
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.
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
I hope there are enough motorways to keep this going for a long time
Oh don't you worry, I bet M6 by itself will be 3/4 videos.
I counted 19 left, and that's not including all those Ax(M) ones! Got a few months of future content!
@@circadianizzy And then don't forget the ones around Belfast. ;)
CZcams 2035: my name's John and welcome to secrets of the B roads
Once all Motorways are complete, theres's A-Roads & B-Roads NiK-Naks to be gleaned.
Love The ending of the video's. All those old TV theme tunes takes me back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You have somehow become Britain's coolest geography teacher!!
That reminds me... I must get a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches.
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 :(
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.
CZcams Wirral Channel has a brief history
czcams.com/video/rNqq-hAl_HM/video.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.
Finishing up the vid at Denham Quarry love it
Another great video.
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.
Glad I stayed for the title music! There's a blast from the past
Another fantastic and informative video mate, just love binge watching and catching up on these.
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! :)
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.
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
The thing I love about this series is the interesting historical context for why things are and the stuff around.
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
I love the randomness of CZcams's suggestion algorithm - and I enjoyed this video too.
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 😅
Always an education
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.
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 🤣
Such a lovely ending to this 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!!!
Brilliant.
One of the best that was.
Thank you.
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.
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...
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.
Thanks, there’s a lot of planning and effort gone into this vid 😊
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!
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.
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! 👍
Another good story of Motorway life and history. John, you are doing a great job.. Bob
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!?
Brilliant filming
"Say goodbye Mr Chips. He's waving!"
Ah yes, the mill. I once drove a couple of hours to meet a guy selling his mitsubishi 300zx at the mill. He took me for a spin up and down the motorway but it wasn't for me. Cool car though
Oooh my local motorway 😁
Me too. Leyland me
Whilst since December 1997 it is mostly just an industrial and residential link road serving Walton Summit and Clayton respectively, from January 1995 through December 1997, the "Walton Summit Motorway" spur had the very important job of carrying the vast majority of the traffic travelling between the centre of Preston and Manchester and beyond via the M61. This was to avoid the Broughton and Samlesbury interchanges as well as the M6 between junctions 30 and 32 getting completely clogged up whilst the simultaneous roadworks to both widen the M6 Preston Bypass from D3/D3M to D4M standard (including the complete reconstruction of Samlesbury interchange) and construct the M65 between junctions 1a and 6 took place. With the M65 now completed between junctions 1a and 6, the M65 between junctions 1a and 2 now forms the main link between the centre of Preston and Manchester and beyond via the M61. Interestingly the M65 between the A6 overbridge at Clayton and junction 2 follows the exact line of the original 1987-1995 all-purpose version of the Walton Summit spur which had previously been the main link between the centre of Preston and the M61 to Manchester and beyond.
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.
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good week?
Yay, one of the 4 motorways that are part of my daily commute.
This is next to my high school that no longer exists anymore, Worsley Wardley High. A new school is there now not sure of the name.
Are the services on the M61 the only motorway service area to have had two name changes? From Anderton to Bolton West and then to Rivington. At least Bolton West gave non-locals an idea of where they are! I used to be a non-local, but now I live in Lostock Hall, not to be confused with Lostock, near Bolton....
"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.
Thanks John - top, spiffing, fabulous.....as usual.
Nicely done.
A very exciting episode. Lots to look at on this motorway
Sunday special 👍
771000 subscribers … just amazing, Jon! Looking forward to both a million and the M62!
As a regular taxi service for a student in Lancaster.
I’m pleased to learn that the big building is Botany Bay Mill.
Catchphrase! I clearly watched too much TV!
Thanks for entertaining us with more information about those motorways.
Wicked sweet awesome indeed. Thanks Jon
Thanks!
Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting 🧐
Great video John, very interesting as always 😀👌👍
Thanks Jon, I'm very well, and it's been a wicked, sweet, awesome week. Thanks for asking.
Was up there last week heading north. Oh I hate that braided interchange so, so, so much
Travel by motorway between Eccles and Chorley, each home to their eponymous cakes, and at the half way point, you will pass Chew Moor.
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
Epic final drone shot is epic!
Ah, the M61. Not a motorway I've been on all that much, but home to two of my favourite junctions on the entire network!
Love this series
Is this song at the end catchphrase with the original old presenter that brings back memories from Saturday night TV God I wish I was in the 90s again proper game shows good TV proper days they were
I think the original presenter was Roy Walker.
@@RichardWatt IIRC he turned down being the next 007 for Catchphrase...
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 😊
I live in Chorley and miss Botany Bay as it was, we’d go regularly for a meal and check out the stores.
All right, so between You, Jago, Geoff Marshall, David (Cruising the Cut), and a few others, you are Covering all means of Transportation in England. I'm sure the Chinese and the Russians are taking notes...
Love your videos.... I'll have to drive some of these motorways next time I head north...
What a great video , well done.
Great video as always. All the best 🇬🇧.
Interesting video and interesting places , I'm watching from Devon
Yet another great video. The highlight of my week (well, one of them anyway). Coffee funds en-route buddy. Mike.
Fantastic Jon 🙂
Brilliant, as ever - also good to see the castle without straining my neck this time 😜
Thanks
I don't know why but your vids are strangely comforting.