Secrets of The Motorway - A1077M

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The A1077M... in North Lincolnshire, it looks an awful lot like the M181, something is amiss...
This motorway was built years ago, but didn't exist until 2021 which makes for quite a bizarre story. And, enjoy it whilst you can as it might be that in the near future, the A1077M disappears as quickly as it arrived.
In this series I 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 will uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer.

[@PenryMMJ]

6000 new houses, on a flood plain, right next to a town where the biggest employer has been teetering on the brink of closure for years. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan, could it?

[@Arltratlo]

corrupt Tory councilors will be the first ones who will gain money out of it! the flood plains are good for dumping sewage water! another win for the Tory councilors!

[@David_Crayford]

I bet the drawrings for it are really pretty, though. 🙂

[@tgheretford]

As nearby Retford found out two weeks ago. But then unlike 6,000 homes, flood plains don't contribute Council Tax revenue every year, does it?

[@51StPi]

⁠@@David_CrayfordWhat are the odds that’s a drawing of a cookie cutter x6000?

[@CheshireTomcat68]

It's going to be a suspended settlement! See what I did there!!!

[@testpilotian3188]

I can image the local council, “hey we’ve got a great idea, let’s build 6000 houses on a flood plain, what could possibly go wrong?”

[@GeorgiawithaG]

Average planner in the North-East. Never heard of flooding up north because of poorly thought out housing, nope, not at all...

[@medler2110]

Its what they've done in my town over the last few years, and guess what the new houses didn't get flooded, however the houses over the road that have never flooded in living memory are now under water, despite all the promises that the new development wouldn't have an adverse affect on the water drainage in the area.

[@srpacific]

It’s okay, they’ll just blame it on climate change

[@therandomidiotontheinternet]

Every council in sydney australia for the past decade has been exactly this

[@kennztube]

Yeah sounds dodgy.

[@tiepup]

I'm sure we all appreciate that you spent all this time in the rain to tell us of this Motorway that may not be a Motorway for long. As for building 6000 homes on a flood plain, well why not, it's not like we have increasingly erratic weather and floods.

[@Truth-And-Freedom]

Weather Manipulation ...........

[@tiepup]

@@Truth-And-Freedom yeah, pumping gigatons of methane, CO2, and particulates into the atmosphere will do that kind of thing.

[@Truth-And-Freedom]

@@tiepup btw are you talking about a single volcano eruption?? Cos that will do more ina day than the entire human existence..... How about the malk - ovit ..ch .. cycles .....no?? Man Ur dumb ,🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🤡

[@danem2215]

@tiepup Always amazed at brainlets crying about weather manipulation whilst thinking 200 years of mostly unregulated environmental pollution can't do shit lmao

[@t0m541]

T'was a bright sunny midsummers day when John started the "suspended sediment settles" bit to camera, the bloopers were just a glimpse into his many rainy days stood there..

[@EmmaMaySeven]

The location of this housing is madness. Six thousands houses on floodland in a town where few people actually want to live. The nearby towns of Barton and Brigg are somewhat more attractive and have land which is less likely to flood. I swear there was even a plan (before this one) to rehabilitate some of the former iron workings and build houses there. At least that would be on higher ground.

[@tgheretford]

Cheap land for the developers, a new stream of Council Tax revenue for the local authority. A tale repeated across the land including in my home town as the media reported two weeks ago when the consequences borne fruit after Storm Babet.

[@aidy6000]

@@tgheretford What baffles me are the chumps that will buy and live in such housing. Surely people find this shit out before purchasing.

[@Johnketes54]

​@@aidy6000One would have thought so otherwise why spend money on such services if the answer is IT'S OK when actually nobody did a survey or research

[@andrewholtham8048]

Wonderful work as ever Jon . Hard pushed to think of a better A1077(M) documentary featuring buried viaducts . Lovely stuff as ever

[@TheTrooper115]

"Earl Beauchamps Warping Drain, which sounds amazing, but on investigation, it's not". Never have truer words been spoken lmao. Every time I'm reminded of the viaduct being filled in it brings me great pain, how I would've loved to have seen it in it's heyday. Also, I didn't know it was possible to say Frodingham or Scotter in the way you did, but here we are. I'll let you off, It's not wrong, just different.

[@DarkVortex97]

The Trent is a river that very famously and frequently bursts its banks. The idea of building a bunch of houses directly adjacent to it on a region with a history of *intentional* flooding is entirely unsurprising of our brilliant great british councillors.

[@jordie8396]

YES! the video we've all been eagerly anticipating since last week :D

[@jordie8396]

I love how he always finds something interesting to talk about, especially about the surroundings of these 'nothing motorways', I had no idea that viaduct continued for so far, after going under it so many times.

[@burtuppercut]

Brilliant! Can't wait to see the Compo Faces of the people who buy houses on a flood plain.

[@diogenesesenna9323]

That end blooper bit - haven't we all be there at some time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@gordonjohnston8321]

Love the dedication to covering every single motorway with its own video. Looking forward to my local A64(M)

[@nickbannister775]

All 300yds of it, 😂

[@aidy6000]

@@nickbannister775 300yds of hell.

[@almostanengineer]

I half expected Charlie Dimmock to pop up out of that flood plane during the bloopers 😂

[@AutoShenanigans]

She was always "popping up"

[@andrewfinch2009]

Great video, Jon, as usual. Building 6000 houses on Earl of Beauchamp's Warping is definitely a warped idea. Mind you, the developers could use the example of the Frodingham viaduct and build the houses on a flaming great embankment. (Could sell them as 'Views as far as Lincoln and Hull')

[@TheOoblick]

Nice bit of Ground Force at the end too.

[@BrunoAlexLUX]

This is probably the newest motorway that won't be the most recent in the future, either because we get a new one or because this one ceases to exist.

[@MrKpsuk84]

This weeks theme tunes (2 for the price of 1) - 4:13 Ground Force and 4:46 - Pingu

[@markemarkpsv1]

Ground Force, Charlie Dimmock filling in those huge arches! What a happy Sunday I’m now having. 👌😜🤘m-E-m

[@AlpakaWhacker]

I wonder if upon completion of the southern roundabout, if the M181 may also cease to exist as at that point, it really wouldn't need a number all to itself however, as we've learned from this series, road planners and those in charge of numbering roads, quite often deviate from what you would expect and what is sensible :P

[@HouseholdDog]

We are witnessing the birth of a new motorway. Very exciting.

[@dxg999]

I can see the head! Nope, false alarm. It's just a junction to nowhere.

[@patrickmooney5035]

"Skowter road" is pronounced scott - er road and is the road to the village of Scotter. Also, spelt Scotter, just like it's pronounced, dont know how that word was butchered. 😂 But, apart from that, i learnt stuff about flooding fields I never new. Truly awesome. When this chap runs out of motarways, hes going to have to start on A roads...

[@seandelaloe7063]

Not to mention Frodingham being butchered 😂

[@patrickmooney5035]

@seandelaloe7063 argh! I missed that, I'm going to have watch it again to heat what he said! 🤣 I could understand Mortle Ash Road getting butcheredl, but these are sound and say words 🤣

[@patrickmooney5035]

​@seandelaloe7063 OMG Frowdingham 😂 Frod rhyming with prod, plod please 🙏

[@Trickus]

And “Frowdingham” is pronounced Frod-ingham… I can’t believe he came back to our lovely town, again! I had no idea that that part of the M181 had actually been reclassified as the A1077M, or that the viaduct over Scotter Road extended underneath the embankment, you learn something new every day.

[@Silverfoxwolfen]

I'm genuinely surprised you could have a video this long about the road. I've driven along it a couple of times and wondered why they changed the number. Thanks for filling in the blanks!

[@only-vans]

The very best part of building anything on an area likely to flood is: Your insurance company will laugh at you for any attempted flood damage claim. Ask the folks at Tewkesbury and York.

[@ptonpc]

Have a lovely week! As just about everyone has said. What can possibly go wrong with 6000 houses on a flood plain in a time when storms and heaving rainfall is becoming more frequent?

[@team-118]

You can't beat a bit of Sunday railway architecture. Buried or not ..

[@David_Crayford]

Ending: Harrison Ford when filming Star Wars: "George, you can write this sh!t, but you can't say it!" [some BS line about the jump to hyperspace] Nice woods in the middle of the roundabout. Very pretty. Hopefully a big enough junction that the obscuration of opposing traffic is not too big an issue. *EDIT* Actually, people might slow down because they can't see what's around the corner. And nobody can drive straight over it.

[@musgawp]

Thanks for being out in the rain (on the suspenders pediment) for us.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@whyyoulidl]

Hey MNIJ, appreciate u doing this in that hard-arsed rain. My favourite standouts: Charlie Dimmock's on Groundforce and the nice bit of undertaking at 03:43. Have a great week people 😃

[@shaun30-3-mg9zs]

Hi Jon, why they did not build a grade separate junction and keep M181 to it's end. But no we go cheap build a junction at grade and give the second stretch a new number to keep it a motorway. It's a bit like the junction with the M57 and M58 at Liverpool. These are clearways and should be free flowing from end to end with grade separate junctions and interchanges. As always a great video Take care 🛣🚦🛣😁👍

[@malcolmcog]

Once upon a time I was working at a company in Hull that made puddings, made by an Aunty, she made a lot of Yorkshire puddings. So I spent my evenings exploring the local roads. My favourite will be forever the Humber Bridge, but I made expeditions further afield past Goole, South to Scunthorpe and even along the A1077(M) with its roundabouts (then) to nowhere !

[@MYCROFTonX]

I can have lunch now! Wickedsweetawesome!

[@Sarge084]

"Suspended sediment settles" That's easy for you to say Jon!

[@Phleeper]

I saw Glandford Park at the end. I was hoping you might have mentioned the shenanigans involving Scunthorpe United. They're worth a video in their own right.

[@roderickmain9697]

"Is this a problem, Homes?" "The land is sedimentary my dear Watson" Keep recording it all, Jon. Things will disappear in the blink of an eye and visual histories are much more appealing than reading it.

[@Firecul]

Wasn't expecting Ground force this morning but I'll take it 😉

[@IronFanJoe]

I remember a show called 'Football's Hardest Away Days' mocking Scunthorpe for building roads to nowhere. Eventually, houses were built off those roads. It's called planning for the future, I guess. The houses will happen eventually, but not in one go. What I'm more perplexed about is a new Scunthorpe United stadium being planned there, then a proposed expansion to Glanford Park, then another new stadium location and now hoping and praying we can have anywhere to play at all. It's been a bizarre few years for us.

[@johncamp2567]

Sunday’s wouldn’t be the same without details of a confusing motorway renumbering in Britain!! Thanks! (…’liked the out-takes; ‘glad you “settled” on that one!)🤣

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@stephenyates962]

The outtakes for SSS were worth the wait at the end

[@wurlyone4685]

Epic work finding the OG abandoned road signs to film next to and very apt Ground Force for the buried viaduct and suspended sediment land fertilising 😁

[@k.r.baylor8825]

While a video about the short and forgettable A1077M might be a bit of a dud, any video that unveils to the world a buried 19th century railway viaduct is a keeper.

[@donalddodson7365]

Thanks, Jon. That looked like a cold episode. Get something hot ... preferably without any settling sediments ... 😊

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks mate. It was rather wet but it gets to a point where you don't notice anymore.

[@MrAshleyR]

I haven't heard that outro theme since I was a wee lad. Right in the nostalgia. Fascinating content, too.

[@andyburns]

I'm assuming Beauchamp is pronounced like Beecham ... anyone?

[@emmo999]

It is indeed

[@fastdamo]

In Somerset we have a Hatch Beuchamp which the locals use Beecham as the name while us commoners call Beau Champ and really upset them! Mrs Bucket syndrome...........

[@IrregularShed]

I'm glad you're being That Guy so that I don't have to be That Guy. 👍

[@MauriceHotblack]

Yep! In the same way that Belvoir is pronounced Beaver and so on.

[@fastdamo]

@@MauriceHotblack oh, didn’t know that one.

[@BBoySnakeDogG]

I enjoyed the "Suspended sediment settles on the land" flubs at the end.

[@blingsley]

I was up there last week and I actually made a note about it as I thought, I bet AutoShenanigans will make a video about it!

[@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian]

A motorway that features high on the list of “endangered motorways”. Another cracking episode. 👏👏👍😀

[@imkirbo3094]

My dad lives near there, I remember when they built that roundabout a couple of years ago, it caused chaos. The entire stretch used to be a perfectly straight 70mph road with no speed cameras, so naturally everyone did 130mph down it. Then one day this roundabout appeared out of nowhere, and for weeks they didn't put any signs or markings at all to inform drivers of the new aproaching hazard, so several people just flew down the road and crashed straight into the roundabout dukes of hazard style within it's first few weeks. It wasn't the best.

[@Firestorm.aiRClan]

Can’t believe you found the decommissioned signs! You should keep them like the guys from Sabre did with the M10

[@dereham1]

Amazed to hear about that Scunthorpe viaduct. I’ve watched games at the football ground next door but knew nothing about this dodgy viaduct. Thanks, John - top video!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@WagnerGimenes]

I was about to make a sarcastic comment that the word exiting in "exciting episode" was probably overpromising a bit during the opening, but you managed to pull off a great 5 minutes with the arches and the drainage ditch. Nice one, Jon. Another coffee coming your way.

[@AssumedTiger]

0:29 I would have nicked them signs

[@xixi560]

1000% hahaha

[@AutoShenanigans]

I couldnt fit them in the car.

[@dansheppard2965]

I love the way you make this stuff compelling: it's the main reason I watch. Another good one!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@jedstephensmusic0001]

love the outtake of suspended sediment settles, the trick is, don't rush, just say it very slowly 20 times, very, very slowly, then speed it up a bit (musician trick for learning songs)

[@PineappleSkip]

Wow, ask and you shall receive, and it's even still Sunday in Aus. Love the outtakes. I'd tip today, but I've suspended settlement till next week 😊

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

3:29 Thank God they tucked up in bed the majority of that massive viaduct if this horrible addition was what was on offer as an alternative. I want to see how future archæologists explain a bridge inside an embankment.

[@kgbgb3663]

There's an old railway viaduct in South Wales that served a mine or an iron-works or similar. It was very tall -- over a hundred feet, judging from an old engraving. But they kept dumping spill or slag around it, and eventually it got covered up completely. One of the TV archeology programmes did a piece on it. I remember Tony Robinson getting all excited about having to dig _down_ about fifteen feet to find any sign of the viaduct at all.

[@rochellehewston9367]

Brilliant again John. Thank you. ps sediment suspended 😂😂😂

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@organickevinlondon]

suspended sediment settlement basically means, where all the shit that's dumped into a river ends up, how nice of the local farmer to grow stuff on that land for everyone to eat.

[@darkstatehk]

3:38 I feel the urge to do a roundabout stealth camp.

[@stephenmatura1086]

Each house will come with its own dinghy (in case of flooding), supplied by the Home Office from used stock found on the Kent coast!

[@ianstewartorr8455]

Short and sweet but this week with some ground force ? Greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@brantnuttall]

I brilliant video about a totally pointless motorway. Well done for getting it in when you could!

[@tomcardale5596]

Well what lovely weather!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Lovely day for it!

[@simaesthesia]

Ground Force music. I like what you did there.

[@Vtarngpb]

3:09 for a split second, I thought Jon was going to start flossing 😝

[@dominicskelton3031]

Ooh I've been looking forward to this one....

[@VR-UK]

I come for the information and funny lines, but I always stay for the end music. 🎵🎶

[@IronFanJoe]

Didn't know there was a footpath alongside the viaduct. 😎 Not massively surprised that the National Highways England Agency left the old road signs behind.

[@northseawolf]

Engineers in the middle ages: Let's build a canal system that allows consistently regenerating soil for farmers. Engineers in the 19th century: Let's build an incredible viaduct to serve a locally funded railway Engineers in the 20th century: Let's reinforce the viaduct with thousands of cubic yards of earth, and later build a motorway to serve the area Engineers in the 21st century: Let's build 6000 houses on a flood plain beside the countrys largest watershed drain...while also expecting more flooding.

[@scalecrawlnl]

Thank you Jon! Fascinating reporting on really interesting roads and lands, although I am not an inhabitant of the UK, nonetheless, cool stuff. especially the great footage from the air and may I add, you are actually standing in muddy fields to make the video for us. Thank you 😊👍

[@HouseholdDog]

So they are building houses on swampland?

[@popkinson]

That viaduct brings back some memories. I used to play up there as a kid and put old pennies on the track for railway engines to flatten.

[@6643bear]

Another great interesting video Jon, not really motorway standard with roundabout lol, regards mark

[@gerryg1056]

Ah John, the lengths you go to for our entertainment and education! Sunny "Scunny" in the pouring rain, what a hero.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@circadianizzy]

I find it hilarious how the A1077(M) got a longer video than the M181.

[@tobyjackman3212]

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

[@johneisen6341]

Building on a flood plane is clever just like they did in Gloucester and look what happened with the flooding there back in 2007.

[@cirian75]

ground force theme is very apt.

[@sk1nzsk1nz34]

Sunny Scunny living up to it's reputation.

[@ddemaine]

I love your style, it is... well... fricking sweet awesome.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@stevekelly5166]

They could sell the land to build a BIGGA-MEGA-GIGAVOLT(tm) factory, and watch it sink before it's built. Just like the one at Blyth. And I'd like you to pronounce that in one take, Jon.

[@burger406]

FINALLY! THE A1077(M)! -burger40

[@ChristopherSmith-dq2xs]

The trees on the roundabout are a portal to Narnia.

[@combatking0]

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Scunthorpe, look at some of the shortest motorways in the country. At least when some idiot crashed into a bridge on the M180 west of Junction 3, the roundabout to nowhere was useful for diverting southbound traffic north onto the A18.

[@freesaxon6835]

What a great idea 6000 house on fertile agricultural land that also floods. Pure genius

[@egpx]

The dodgy viaduct was fascinating. It's not the only dodgy viaduct the Victorians built. The Big Water of Fleet Viaduct in the Galloway region of Scotland was also deemed to be structurally unsafe after a few years of operation. Rather than bury it though they encased the stone pillars in bricks and supported the arches with old rails. Sadly, this viaduct is in the Galloway region of Scotland and miles away from any motorway, or anything else in fact, so is unlikely to ever appear on this channel.

[@daveoftheclanburgess]

I can think of few place worse to live than that soggy flood plain. Near Scunthorpe. In that weather. On that topography... Just no! Another good little film John... keep it up!

[@eggy77]

Love the bloopers section, how many attempts 😂

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

viaducts are such a cool piece of infrastructure. They must have looked amazing when they were newly constructed

[@johnf5817]

...and pretty awesome while they are being constructed, a dangerous process at the time. Apparently one of the pillars of the Glenfinnan railway viaduct has the remains of a horse and cart in it that fell down and couldn't be saved.

[@Disco45Sound]

Minor point. Beauchamp is pronounced Beecham in UK English. (Like how Beaulieu is byoo-lee.)

[@getyerspn]

suspended sediment settlement sentence supposedly supporting super success secrets....of the motorway

[@stephenhollingsworth2530]

I appreciated the ground force theme tune!

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Another fantastic video Jon, looking forward to seeing on the news those 6000 homes that have been flooded 😂😂

[@FordPrefect23]

Hearing some of the pronunciations of places has me alternating between smirking and cringing. I live about 8 miles away and used to work in Scunthorpe so it's all very familiar, till I hear names said differently and then it feels suddenly alien.

[@mikebirkett010]

Nice one John, i likes loony motorways. Oh by the way, Beauchamp is pronouced "beecham", like the powders, no idea why (rather like the Belvois hunt is pronounced "beaver"). Just us Brits doing Brit😂

[@richardcope3850]

As ever, truly fascinating John.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@Laser2120]

Building houses on a flood plane seems like a really good plan what could possibly go wrong 🤔

[@kevinmothers904]

Good grief.....'suspended sediment settles'.....Jon you're making it hard for yourself, we just call it silt.

[@cascadesub6235]

well u learn something new every day... did not know the viaduct was that long...

[@LM42]

Love your video edits and seamless audio 😊

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching :D

[@wilber3762]

Short and sweet, that’ll do , settlement down . WSA. 👍