M6 Motorway Early 1960's

Filmed by Ray Dale
From the bridge near Old Peel Farm on A52 Nantwich Rd
Limbrick Rd Shraleybrook
Keele Services
Drive on M6 Exit J17 Sandbach
Diesel Train at Betley Rd

[@shaun5944]

Thank you for this. Great film. Great days back then. 👍🇬🇧

[@thehighwaycowboy2822]

Wow!!! The good old days when you could get out of 2nd gear on the M6

[@martiniv8924]

I can remember frequent trips up and down the M6 (Birmingham to Carnforth) mid 60’s with my dad , occasionally stopping at Keele services, hoping to see the odd E type flash past at warp speed , the yellow loading shovel is a Weatherill 12H 😎

[@paulthomas3841]

Good old days, where the Tarmac was Thick and Hard, not like these days, thin layer

[@ethanhayes9989]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@lloydpenfold486]

How scary the motorway looks without central crash barriers. Like the 'Peak' at the end, too.

[@stevenweasel2678]

its a Class 40 Diesel / or known by the slang name - 1960's trainspotters as a ` Big D `. Yeah the Motorway does have a dangerous look to it . Great record though of Britains 19sixties transport scene

[@andrewjames3908]

Looks like the site of the former Betley Road station at the end

[@mookyzook]

If only it was still like this, it would make my life a lot easier. Now of course the M6 is just one big roadworks making it into the new highly dangerous 'smart' motorway all the way up. I think you can change smart to dumb in this case as it has taken years to do and people are getting killed due to the lack of hard shoulder.

[@servicecrew6813]

The mk 2 jaguar rules...

[@lenbillington9114]

If only it was like that today! Heaven

[@simonworman7898]

It took for ever to complete the Midlands section and when they did the people who lived around it used it as a serris of bypasses. You had to pick the right time to peel pf the M1 and head for Wales via Shrewsbury. no M54 ,that came in odd sections too. God bless the old A5

[@MyDogSleepsALot]

*The M6, is now a smart motorway with you being able to use the hard shoulder as a stop thing it doesn’t look like this anymore it looks way different*

[@jeanwood6392]

No middle barriers.

[@MRPOP-zl1bp]

Very light traffic of course - depends on what time of the day ...

[@zakybaby9743]

Regular motorway traffic then, still less than in a present day lockdown

[@Drpepper7916]

Looks a bit like that now in that area with the removal of the central crash barrier as they upgrade to a smart motorway

[@stevef9530]

Can’t be the M6, there’s no bollards.

[@louiejonesponation]

I live on the M6 (Nantwich Junction 16)

[@chrisrowl5001]

I live just off junction 10 and starting to hate this piece of tarmac with a passion

[@googleuser795]

A long time ago yet that long ago at all

[@richardgiles2484]

The good old days. It would be nice to see a few more police cars on the roads and not just the motorways 🤣

[@aswclassicsdorset1743]

Shame its not like that now

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

No Audio...disjointed video...but Old and rear video...great to see....save it for posterity

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

3:20 Windows wall paper, so that is where they got it from....

[@Emily-vs9ju]

Oh look a hard shoulder and hardly any vehicles

[@R1D4M]

This looks so crap I mean look at the sand the cars it’s so so weird to today’s cars

[@lewstone1934]

I can't possibly explain to you how exciting it was to hear the incredible pop music and the sheer live (and sometimes dangerous) atmosphere in every town. Everything was changing and people got their excitement from reality - not wired to a cyber one like you. You are dead compared to 1960s teenagers. You are playing stupid video games - they were racing motorcycles without a helmet with very few rules.- no contest mate.

[@lewstone1934]

Ps. Today's cars may be comfortable and refined - but they are boring and sterile. That's the word that describes modern life - sterile. Perfect/ordered/policed/pointless.

[@giogio4833]

@@lewstone1934 too true mate

[@shaun5944]

I G T. You don't know your alive mate.

[@shaun5944]

Life was good then