Thank you for the explanation 😊

Will wait for that in next weeks instalment i bet he filmed this weeks ago so can't be arsed to add it 😅 Not like them to waste money like that 😂

I didn't know Argos made tunnels.

Theres another cattle tunnel about a mile north of junc 25 Bryn just before you get to Windy Arbour

He missed one at junc 10. We used to used it in our lunch breaks at the local school to go to the cinema and get posters. for those interested zoom into the south side of junc 10 and look for Sneyd Brook, you have the tunnel the brook uses and another right next to it.

Lorry 🤣 Red lorry yellow 🚛💛

I've used that dodge! I used to live in Rugby.

But the secret emergency access slip roads to the two motorways there have been signed "no motor vehicles except authorised vehicles". No MOTOR vehicles 🤦‍♂️ Surprised Jon didn't use that loophole to get a closeup shot tbh 🤣

Thats sound advise except for the cops lovvvvvvvve to hang out on the piggy perch just before the sign for the M6/juc 5 . The whole areas super hot and the cops like to errrrrrr disappear off the radar for a little while to show the young wpcs how to handle a police truncheon .... if you catch my drift . To give a bit back notice when you go up the hill on the collector it seems to cut through a hill and its been butressed up with a shed load of concrete ? ever wonder why ? This was an iron age feature that when dug up was found to have bodies in it ........ lots of sweeping under carpets later and hence the concrete . How do i know ? my old fella was major of Arden district at the time of its making .

@godzillas6301 the piggy perch you mention is 'The Hump' I refer to!

@@Willisoverthemoon As someone who as a kid would taunt the police to chase us up and down the collector road , while were were on crossers , for an afternoons sport then we knew the area rather well . I was there as a baby in arms as `the wood` was built and it was my playground . We were little bastards but were respectfull to others and held no malice . It was very entertaining getting chased by a couple of the lads in a mini metro on the road while we were on the grass , slamming on the brakes and shooting off in the other direction . Sadly we would have to wait around a bit for them to catch up which was all part of the fun . Another bit of fun would be allowing them to think they had a chance as we would skuttle through aran ways shops . They would try to ram us as we escaped down the side of what became in times rays snooker hall ( ray barritt of kingfisher drive and then the chester road ) . Fun times 🙂 I remember the collector road being built along with the NEC and the M42 . Lets say im very local .

Well bloody hell... that's a good one and yes, completely missed it!

Do you have a what three words for the hump?

In 800 yards, you would have been able to exit the motorway.. but they didn't built the slip road... continue for 17 miles and make a U turn.

@@AutoShenanigans 🤣🤣🤣

@@AutoShenanigans Yes please? That would be an awesome Sat Nav - a bit like having a tour guide, rather than a navigator who's often more lost than I am!

Ahhhh, Thank you , I knew I recognised it just couldn't remember. Lee Dennis era FF.

it was an excellent example of infrastructure being dictated by politics - the engineers were tasked with connecting A14 to the motorways while pinching as many pennies as humanly possible, and had they not been compelled to do so, it would likely have been built more like its current form then again, this was the era of motorway design that gave us the "improved" Cherwell Valley Interchange (M40 junction 10, where the once-straight sliproads were tightened into sharp bends, an extra merge point was introduced on the main line, and traffic flows entering and leaving A43 to the north had to cross each other, creating a conflict point that wasn't there before)

If i remember correctly, you could also get on the M1 North but not South. It has definitely improved the flow of traffic now, there used to be mile long queues all around the junction.

I can't understand why you can't go south on the M1 from the A14. It's surely the easiest slip road ever?????

You can now but i think the original A14 connection was rushed & done on the cheap

@@christophersmith5434 It is a mystery why... maybe expecting traffic to go elsewhere to get to south if you were... Via Northampton?

Catthorpe , Yes three major roads linked by two mini roundabouts .. a masterpiece in engineering , that only in uk...would 5 year olds be allowed to design. Much better now, but still does not cure the disbelief that it was designed that way. The saying "dereliction of duty " summed it up .

Yup! I know that feeling, though for me, it was to go visit my nan!

Very true, the colliery came too late for the canal.

I think that in general, railways replaced the canals for the transport of industrial goods in the mid 19th century as they became more widespread and reliable. Whether that colliery was there before the railway was built wouldn't make any difference- canals for this purpose were long obsolete due to the railways and later on, road transport. The only canals that were still useful were ship canals, not barge canals like the ones in most of Britain.

I agree - content, presentation and editing are perfect.

aww you guys....

Station! Damn.

Along with 'a minor disagreement between nations' with a mushroom cloud behind

Used to commute across it… I get lost now 😂

There were also a number of fatal accidents where HGV's ran into the back of stationary traffic queuing up to the junction, both on the M6 and A14.

South of Junction 40? Yes. I'm waiting with baited breath.

My bet is a service station of non existence.... But yes, something I pass by a lot!

@@kieranbeecroft8414 Yeah, I'm sure it was an intended service station. I remember a 'Services in X miles' sign on the northbound carriageway having a gap where waiting to be filled in when the services were completed. It might even be still there.

Join the M5 at J8 and you can get another reprise between J1 and J2 of the motorway judders.

Totally agree. I used to travel from Norfolk to Nuneaton. The new set up is way better.

The A14 up to Cambridge is basically a motorway already. If the M6 hadn't started at the Catthorpe Interchange, the A14 might have just been an M6 continuation. I suppose it could be the first motorway with a Junction 0 and minus numbers for the successive junctions going east.

@@egbront1506 If you head South on the M6 toward Catthorpe the road sign does actually say M1 left M6 straight ahead (A14). Suggesting at a later date the M6 could indeed continue. Would the junction numbers go to minus numbers like on one of the French Autoroutes (I cannot remember the number for the life of me) ?

@@MikeWooshy Yes, I've seen the sign but I don't think an upgrade or name change is in the offing for now as most traffic heads off to the M1. It just means M6 continues to Catthorpe after which it's the A14.

Also well known as a dogging site!

I was going to say 'with a stock car racing track in the middle of it' But I think its not actually *in* Cannock Chase?

​@@Technaudio you're thinking of Hednesford Hills, which technically is in the 'chase' as the AONB itself is enormous

Second largest country park in the UK too. Largest being Great Windsor Park and third being Rutland Water.

Ive lived around Brum my entire life, been on that junction countless hours. Never once set foot under it though. Going to have to add it to my list of things to do. :)

@jamesmaybrick2001 one thing I wish it had though is a bench seat. I did a walk of the canal "triangle" (Salford Junction is at the top) and have my lunch at the junction. Nowhere to sit!

You and everyone else it seems :D It's known as the "Fleet cheat"

Nice one mate, thanks for watching!

I quite enjoyed it in the back of a rover 414i. Don't think my dad did hahaha

It's only good if you don't have to use it

@@pigeonpoo1823 mine was as a 8 YO in a clapped out Austin Alegro, with all the signs covered up due to road works. 🤪 Boy did I learn to read road signs fast. 😝

DEFINITELY a euphonium.

It finishes up in Birmingham

Yes, the A45 weaves around Northampton, gets lost for a bit within the A4500, then appears again in Upper Heyford and continues on to Coventry & Birmingham.

@@simonlloyd74sl I stand corrected 👍🏻

The A14 is a road of three parts, with a lot of it having been the A604 too. Not withstanding upgrades along new alignments and bypasses that in a way means it is almost all new road. The A45 from Felixstowe to Cambridge is now only the eastern most part of the A14. From there the A45 continued on what is now the A428 to St Neots then B645 to Higham Ferrers which ends on the current A45. Originally the A605 started at Higham Ferrers, but the A45 was took over the southern section to Thrapston in order to link it with the A14, keeping the number to dissuade traffic using the downgraded old route. As others have said, the A45 still goes to Birmingham, but it bypasses Northampton by being rerouted onto the M1 for a short section. The A604 ran from Harwich to the A6 on the east of Kettering. The middle section of the A14 replaced the western part of that road from where it met the A45 at Cambridge. But there is no A604 any more, though, as the eastern part was broken up to become parts of many other roads. Finally the western section of the A14 is the new road built between Catthorpe and the A6 on the west of Kettering and then replacing part of the A6 to link to the old A604. The A14 number was originally used for the relatively short road from the A1 at Alconbury to the A10 in Royston. When the M11 was opened it was renumbered to encourage traffic to use the motorway and A604, so south of Godmanchester it became the A1198, and north of Huntingdon to the A1 became a spur of the A604. When the big new and upgraded road was opened linking the M1/M6, A1, and a major freight port they wanted a two-digit number, and A14 was the only one free. So by coincidence the A14 then became the spur of the A604 became the A14 again. Or at least its modern equivalent, being that it was a new route to bypass the Stukeley's. That is also why the A14 is wrongly numbered. It should have an A5 number, as roads take their number from the single digit road they come after in a clockwise direction. And Catthorpe is between A5 and A6, but there were no A5x numbers free to use. But in 2019 that last surviving original-ish section disappeared. The Cambridge to Huntingdon upgrade bypassed Huntingdon with a link to A1. So the A1307 - which was created from the Haverhill to Cambridge section of the A604 - was extended as a combination of new road, taking over the A14 that used to be the A604, and the last remaining part of the A14 that was not actually part of the A14. And just when you thought I had finally finished, there was a secret motorway! Maybe. After the opening of the A1(M) from Alconbury to Peterborough the final section of the A604 from the Alconbury junction lead inescapably onto a motorway, so was put under motorway conditions. And it was originally referred to as the A604(M) in legislation. But this was never signed. And nor was the A14(M) after it was renumbered. But the numbering of roads is not something done in law but some random office, so depending on where you looked it was referred to either A14(M) or as an A1(M) spur. However the enabling legislation for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon upgrade calls it the A1(M) and there is now a "maintained by" sign on the section calling it the A1(M), so there is no secret A1307(M). Following the upgrade at Catthorpe, the six miles-or-so west of junction 1 also lead inescapably onto the M1 or M6. However there is no secret A14(M) here either, as the road is not under motorway conditions. Nor does it have any traffic restrictions, so technically you can walk, ride a bike, or take a horse down it. If you take the M1 slip road there is a secret junction lading off the road, and only motor vehicles are prohibited from using it. But it is gated off at the other end. And it is long after the sign to start motorway restrictions. So that is odd. Presumably if you did find yourself in that situation you would be charged for driving without due care and attention, as signs on the A14 now tell motorway traffic to leave. Though those were only put up around five years ago. Though on the A5199 you need to understand the meaning of the green sign with a solitary blue panel with a motorway chopsticks logo which indicates the road becomes a motorway. Which in my opinion is somewhat cryptic and non-intuitive. And if you got this far then how the devil are you? How was your week? I guess you missed most of it since you started reading.

Agreed. It is what it should have been from the start. Even when it was originally opened it was totally inadequate.

decent info that ...... kudos ........ Even with all the messing around and digging up over the last 5 years its still there !

We'll never know.. but thanks for watching

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

I'd love to know why they seem to have dug a small trench to every lamppost along the M6 stretch that goes through Birmingham. it's a right pain in the @ss to drive over them and have your car bump every second for about 20 minutes..

Not long to go!, Thanks for watching

No need the video has only been a few months in the making and the same vehicles are still sitting in the same positions waiting for some womble to remove the cones because a pigean landed on the gantry which may make the road slippery. H&S first you know. :)

Stafford south.

@Ben Gray perils of using a phone to comment