Every Sunday, John checks in on me, asks how my week was, tells me some interesting things about the motorways, wishes me a good week, and leaves with a nice drone shot. I feel loved

"Up next is the...WT* is that? Is that a junction?" Best one liner since the M57 "Junction 6 exists". A joy to watch, Jon. Great work

The Coronation Street theme is really called "Lancashire Blues" by Eric Spears... thought I'd drop that in... you're welcome!

Our first tv in the 1950s was a Ferranti. When my dad told the 5year old me this, I got upset because I thought he meant my auntie was going to keep it...think about it...

My addiction to this series has driven me to go and get coffee and watch it in my car rather than watch it at home where I can feel my Mrs judging me.

The Ferranti Mark 1 - a tidied up and commercial version of the Manchester Mk1 - As designed by a load of people who "just turned up" knowing more about computers than was possible having just been released from essential war work they couldn't talk about Also Tim Bereners-Lee's parents met whilst working on the Ferranti Mk1

I love this series. John does a great job keeping his audience engaged in essentially what boils down to; "Well you see, the government thought we needed a bunch of new roads and motorways in (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, ect. ect.) so they either completely strangled the historic landmarks and structures in the way or just demolished them outright. Out of the proposed 1000 new motorways, 2 would actually be built, with 2 others left half-complete until the sun burns out.

Bricks, witches, recognition that roundabouts never end and some really stupid junction… some of which don’t exist. Great stuff.

Computers! I didn't think Jon could top his previous Secrets of The Motorway series episodes... but then we get a Ferranti story! Awesome work!

Looked at the thumbnail and thought wow the UK has a diverging diamond interchange. Then was brought back to down to reality to discover it's just another standard UK style fudge. Standard 😂

Best line ever, “the last junction on the M60 or it would be if it wasn’t a circle and it never bloody ends”

The northern stretch of the M60 is only named as such so that Manchester can claim to have a complete orbital like London. Uppity buggers. I still call it the M62.

Why hasn’t itv or BBC got in touch with you? This series and all your other videos (Britains abandoned roads etc) are worthy of a TV series. Brilliant stuff John. Looking forward to another exciting episode of Secrets of the Motorway.

junction 26 reminds me of the Scalextric crossover track

I live in Stockport and I'm nearly 50 and I'd like to say I'm approaching a point in my life where I'm starting to be comfortable with the motorway junctions here. They're all insane. It's definitely advanced class.

Hahaha love the turbo encabulator cameo.

That crazy junction also results in the motorway being restricted to 50mph as it bends under the various flyovers.

Damn, I was hoping to experience a full 10 minutes of John talking about the MEC ;p

During construction around Redrock a digger 'accidentally' hit the Tiviot Dale railway tunnel under the church, securing it's fate. There was also a spectacular viaduct paralleling the motorway across near Portwood roundabout that got flattened and the junction was added

Credit where credit is due for the sheer amount of effort in visiting all those cold and windy locations for a few seconds footage each time!

The missing slip roads at junction 20 is a NIMBY thing, though a little more understandable. The houses would have needed to be demolished to build it so they managed to get them to change their mind about it. The other side did actually have an unfinished slip road if I remember correctly, but was never actually used. They've since build Tesco on part of the land it would have been on. I vaguely recall seeing the end of a massive pipe sticking out of the ground there too when they were building the thing. It used to dip down then up again before the bridge was built.

I just hope more people notice the colourful lanes on the Simister Island roundabout - even today I watched a huge pile of Renault get it wrong and desperately squeeze themselves back in to 'stay on the M60'

Loving this series, deserves a terrestrial TV slot! That 100k is approaching fast too, well deserved.

And who would have thought that we have mention of the Retro Encabulator on one oh Johns videos! Truly comedic timing!

Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good Easter?

The lion cub gets held aloft, signalling to all theIR eventual new king. And, after a moment of silence, the lion cub starts to speak: "Y'alright our kid?" IT'S THE CIIIIIIRCLE OF MAAAAAANCHESTER!

J25 was my intro to the M60 every morning for years. Joining the anti-clock, the slip road joins the 2-lane motorway and becomes the new L3. And all the racing enthusiasts clamour to dart out to occupy it asap because outside lane faster! Sometimes, they even recognise the presence of a vehicle already existing in that lane. Exciting! Also of interest: On the clockwise side the approach to J25, and continuing all the way around to just before J26 is an average speed control zone set to 50mph, because this bit is all re-purposed slip roads with tighter than normal curves for a motorway. It's a stretch of road that generates a huge amount of speeding tickets.

I'm so pleased we got to see junction 25, where a slip road comes onto the fast lane of the motorway. I have showed this junction to several visiting friends as they don't believe me...

3:19 - I counted the arches...there are 16. Now I must go...my left arm appears to have fallen off. ☮

You mentioned the rediculous slip lane into lane 3, well done. Twas a bit of a surprise the first time I experienced it.

Oh the retroincabuuullllaaatooorrrr! Well played sir...well played!

The film 51st State (Samuel L Jackson, Meatloaf, Robert Carlyle ) used the completed, but not yet opened, M60 for the scenes where SLJ was picked up from Manchester Airport. A section about 2 to 3 miles from the M62/66 junction. I worked as a driver on it and was driving a coach alongside the Jag as general traffic when they filmed, but must have ended up in the bin because I'm certainly not in the actual film.

Lovely job. Bored out of my mind trying to find something intelligent on the radio, but found Rob Beckett. Completely dire. They really are killing Radio 2. Glad to see there are limits to Jon's inner nerd. Even I find knowing about the Manchester Computer pointless, and I read Information Systems. *EDIT* You know what? If Tom Scott or Johnny Ball covered the MEC, I bet they could make it work.

Junctions 25 and 26 are the perfect little bits of chaos to satisfy my inner child. Wicked sweet awesome!

Manchester still confuses me, I first went up that way, driving professionally, before most of the motorways had been built. Every time I went back another bit of motorway had been added, then they started renumbering them just to add further confusion. I'm semi retired now, and full retirement will be soon, so I don't have to worry about any more changes confusing me around Manchester! Oh, nice vid by the way!

i always smile at the discontinuous hard shoulder signs at the m60/m56 link road junction.

Great week, thank you, Jon. Hoping yours has been also. It seems to have stopped raining in Southern California, so less slipping on our slippery slip roads where the SR-94 flies over the SR-125 as it hauls up to the I-8 ... you do it so much better.

Absolutely brilliant John. Knowledge and humour 👌👌👌

Well you might have missed out Huddersfield completely, but glad to see Hazel Grove gets a mention!

You should have done it in your best Jeremy Clarkson voice... "The Stockport Viaduct is considered to one the largest brick structures......(dramatic pause).......In The World!"

Simister Island interchange where the M60, M66 and M62 motorways do meet. I do think that a new slip road should be built to allow traffic on the M60 clockwise carriageway to avoid the congested roundabout with ease. As what you have explained in your previous video. Plus I still do believe that the M63 motorway should of been built so it would connect from the M6 motorway at Junction 19 near Knutsford to the M56 especially when coming from Birmingham and the South. That would make it easier to travel to Manchester from Birmingham.

If you take the A6 viaduct into Stockport from Manchester, the smell from McVities- the Jaffa Cake factory- on the Manchester side can be quite something.

John " what the fuck is that! " made me laugh so much XD nice work John

John a quick suggestion since your in the areas filming these maybe include video footage from your pov as you drive along 1 of the many "oddities" im sure theres a few who watch these have never ventured onto the m60 and witnessed the mind buggery of a hgv appearing in lane 3 and trying to get over 😂

Approaching Stockport there used to be another railway that passed beneath the viaduct. There was a short tunnel which suffered damage while they were building the motorway and the line was closed.

The Ferranti retro encabulator is a story that needs to be told

You forgot to mention that on junction 25, the slip road merges into the fast lane. It's always absolute bedlam there.

I've been listening to it now for over 60 years and have never commented, but I'll do that here and now for 60 years' sakes: The Coronation Street theme music is SUCH A DIRGE.

4:09 Silver car doing a bit of apparition under the railway bridge 😉

I wish they would have built the A6M, the Stockport section of the M60 is an absolute nightmare during rush hour.

That time of the week and a new episode. Wicked, sweet, awesome.

As you mentioned about Simister Island interchange were the M60, M62 and M66 motorways meet. I do think that a new section of the M60 flyover or underpass would of been built to allow clockwise traffic on the M60 motorway to avoid that notorious interchange.

That shot at 1.20 is the best!

As someone who has been driven on the M60 at J25 and always knew there was a planed Motorway fly over but never knew it would end up in Hazel Grove and it would most likely connect to the A555 to Manchester airport, also something I’m not 100% sure with is that I think there used to be a railway line that ran under the Stockport Viaduct where the M60 is today but all I have found on it was one black and white picture and even that was about 3 years ago.

This is the best video I've ever seen about anything

you have grown on me, really do like your delivery

I was not expecting a Turbo Encabulator cameo. Amazing

When I moved to Manchester 20-odd years ago people warned me about Jcn 25 and it’s “fast lane” sliproad, but coming from Glasgow I was well used to that since the M8 has (had?) a couple of them just West of the City Centre.

Been watching these for a year or so and they are brilliant fun. My compliments to John...

Surprised you didnt mention the tight right hander bend around J25 thats so tight that theres a permanent 50 mph speed limit controlled by average speed cameras (the first one’s i’d ever seen) creating a never ending bottle neck. Also in the opposite direction is a sign saying “motorway liable to flooding” which was put up when that stretch of the motorway was built which begs the question “ why did you build a motorway that you knew was going to flood” answers on a postcard.

Excellent John/Jon. Where J1 is I love looking at where they cut into that sandstone rock next to lane 1. And the viaduct to look at too. I’m surprised I haven’t crashed there gawping away 👀

7:15 pride pendolino!

That Retro Encabulator insert was inspired.

So that's the Sinister Island I keep hearing about in the traffic reports 😮

Another great job John. Thanks!

Wonderful, as usual. Thanks John.

Brilliant Jon, really enjoy your posts and the time you spend on them and of course your humour

Loved your explanation of the flustercuck that is junction 25. Joining the motorway there from Bredbury normally involves a bit of breath holding and hoping that death isn't imminent! The A6(M) I think was planned to cross the A6 and head over to the airport; the south part of that (A6 - airport) was finally built in 2017 as the A555; but that took 45 ish years to happen. Whether the bit that links to the M60 will be built in anyone's lifetime remains to be seen.....

Best series on YT! Keep up the good work. 100k well deserved

LNER 4472 is known as 'Flying Scotsman'. No 'The'. 'The Flying Scotsman' is a named timetabled train service. 'Flying Scotsman' is the locomotive.

Thankyou. Your reaction to J25 was exactly the same as mine the first time I used it and ended up in lane 3

My Sunday dose of motorway comedy, brilliant

Great episode! Hope I'm not the only one that always waves back to Jon during the outro

Again..thanks for your brilliant presentations

Until the early 80s there was another line that ran under Stockport viaduct then into a tunnel roughly parallel to the line of the motorway. The line was closed when construction work on the motorway caused the tunnel to collapse. The next stretch of the motorway was built on part of the trackbed of the now-abandoned line. Coincidence?

The word Ferranti took me right back to the news reports about defence cuts and the Falklands conflict. But I've never heard of a differential Durdle Door spring (02:20) at least it was something like that.

Wonderful Rockwell Retro Encabulator!

Part 2 I never knew I needed so much

Hi Jon, how the devil are you? Fantastic video, nice to see some local motorways recently. Look forward to these each Sunday. Have a good Easter

Another brilliant and fascinating video John and loved the Outro with Corrie being a nod to the region.

Love this series!

I’ve watched a few of your videos and you made me ‘lol’ a few times, especially on this episode, so I’ve subscribed. Also, living in Oldham, this is the closest section of the M60 to me, so it was quite interesting 👍🏻

Great video John,as always very interesting.😀👌👍

I can actually add some of this video as an MCR resident: 1. The old M63 used to end just before what is now the site of the Pyramid building (which was, is and always will be a strange thing for a largely unprofitable, socialist banking establishment to build and move into in 1990's surburban Manchester. As someone mentioned below, the section between the Pyramid and where the A6(M) should be was formally a rail route, which if I recall went from Manchester Central (once named GMEX, now named Manchester Central again, but no longer a railway station) to London (either St. Pancras or Paddington - can't remember now). The section of the old track on the other side of river Mersey now forms part of the Metrolink network after standing disused since the early 1980's. I think it was the bridge under the A6 that was damaged, but I thought it was from explosives use, not a digger, however I agree, it was suspiciously well timed. 2. The fast line entry of the slip road at the site of what should have been the A6(M) is indeed spectacularly dangerous, if you aren't familiar with the route, as you can find yourself gunning round a blind bend, only to find a truck preoccupied with having to traverse left across three lanes of traffic right in front of you. That same section of motorway heading in the opposite direction has such a tight turn that it is equipped with cameras and a permanent 50mph average speed limit, which must be one of the shortest sections of such things on the UK motorway network and long predates the concept of smart motorways. 3. I turned sixteen in 1999 and the topic of our GCSE Geography project was the impact of the up coming completion of the Manchester orbital motorway. We stood next to the Roxy cinema and the print works looking down on a remarkably undeveloped strip of land right through where the motorway now runs. Also stood atop of Audenshaw reservoir. I seem to remember being told that this structure was losing it's third element entirely, so when I noticed years later when flying in and out of Manchester Airport, I presumed this part of the scheme had been reworked, incorrectly it would appear. 4. I now live near Sinister Island and a public consultation has recently completed in relation to upgrading this monstrosity a great deal. It's slated to be gaining a loop round, flyover junction off the south bound M66, which will completely bypass the roundabout altogether and join up with the west bound M60. I'm sure studied have been done indicating otherwise, but common sense would dictate that if there is only the cash to do this for one slip road, the one joining the east bound M60/M62 and east bound M60 proper would be the one best served. Currently the north bound M66 junction and the west bound M60 proper to M60/M62 west bound junctions do not need to use the roundabout at all. 5. You discussed this in the previous video, but worth mentioning here, the section of road from Sinister Island to the M56 junction(s) is absolute chaos, twice a day, every week day. This section has junctions leaving and merging to multiple motorways and dual carriageways, as well as passing by both the Trafford Centre and Trafford Park, the latter of which gets especially busy when United are at home on a weekday evening. I've completely given up with this section of motorway at peak times and depending on where I am going and at what time of day I will either go the long way round the M60, or just use regular roads instead...

Happy Easter, another interesting video. Thanks Jayne

Initial thumbnail (or junction 26) reminds me of the Crossrail icon. Crossrail now the Elizabeth Line through central London. Even the MTR symbol in Hong Kong when rotated 90 degrees. Why? Because we work from home and have the railway signalling simulator in the backroom, and loads of paperwork with now what I'm calling, the M60 Jnc 26 symbols on them! 🙂

Good length, factual and usually funny, the perfect KZfaq Video

I'm loving the extra humour you're putting into these Jon, keep it up hilarious 😂😂😂😂 Cheers:)😊

Haha am learning to drive and Ive been through these a few times on the non motorway routes, always fun to see you covering local places

A great episode from my home town. The fact you included Ferranti's as well, where my late father worked at that very site, and had to drive there pre-motorway made it even more poignant. The site ended up as the major place for making semi-conductors for all sorts of applications, such as cars, computers, etc etc.

Once again, a video about things that shouldn't matter, but somehow really do. Well researched, interesting stuff. Mega video, cheers Jon!

Your content is great, very interesting, thanks, all the best, 👍👊✌️🌍.

Great video very interesting thank you

Wow… lived in Stockport for 20 years and always wondered why Junction 25/Bredbury dumped you in lane 3 of the M60. 😂 Fascinating as I used to travel down the M66, etc. Keep up the great work. 🫡

great work again Jon 😀

A weekly tonic: )

Great videos.. I used to live in didsbury (my daughter still does) right next to Stockport.. I lived in Mossley and now live in Bury. It's fascinating to see facts and sites regarding these specific motorways, as I drive down them everyday!...Ps I drive for a living so I drive down the many roads you mention 😂... 👍

Cracking videos - informative and funny! Thank you so much for your work, my wife and I really look forward to each one. Being a Pom exiled in Australia I love seeing these. Keep up the good work...

John; You mention the difficult/dangerous R/H lane on-slip where LGVs which are not allowed in the outer lane of 3+ lane M/way, have to get out of that lane as soon as ;possible. In Glasgow on the M8 there are both R/H on-slips and off-slips in the vicinity of the A82 Great Western Rd.

Fascinating video, i was there yesterday