Secrets of The Motorway - M62 - Part 2

[@mrcogginsgarage7062]

Ventilation shafts are built in an oval form to aid the extraction of smoke by forming a small vortex effect,if you look at the map the run of the tunnel is North to south and the prevailing wind is from the east,hope this is useful,thanks for another interesting video.

[@billmmckelvie5188]

As I live locally I can categorically state the prevailing wind is from the South West, having spent quite a bit of the time as young lad on a certain station on the route, which was almost a 'wind tunnel' due to its alignment. My Dad who worked there, would have been delighted if the prevailing wind was from the East as there was a hill to the East of the station!

[@hairyairey]

​@@billmmckelvie5188this is incidentally why most runways run southwest to northeast. This isn't the only example of oval ventilation shafts either as the shafts for the Blackwall Tunnel are also oval. One of which goes through the millennium dome/O2/whatever it's called when you're reading this.

[@adamcowood7553]

As Homer Simpson would say.... Neeeerrrrrrrd! 👆

[@garethaethwy]

@@billmmckelvie5188 The prevailing winds in the whole of the British Isles is south west, something to do with the coriolis effect...

[@billmmckelvie5188]

@@garethaethwy Ta!

[@astronomenov99]

That Land Rover incident sparked the construction of armco style barriers at every location where there was a possibility of road traffic running onto a railway. You'll notice them now...

[@mrhumbug5353]

@De Rekarts As I recall, it was when the courts started to treat 'fell asleep at the wheel' as dangerous driving rather than driving without due care. That's why there was so much back and forth over it

[@OkenWS]

Interesting as there has been some confusion for years over why exactly *every* road over rail bridge on the road network seems to have heavy concrete barriers (like the ones you see on smart motorways, but taller) whereas the sections either side often just have impact metal barriers. I wonder if that was all the result of a strategic review or RAIB recommendations.

[@chrisbrookes1167]

@@De-Rekartseither that or messing around with their phones or watching tv. It’s frightening what you can see other truck drivers doing when you’re in the cab.

[@Johnketes54]

​@@chrisbrookes1167Personally I believe we have the technology Vai GPS to put any phone to "flight mode" above 4 mph of course that could muck up people using public transport but a bit of tweaking GPS would know where you are, As a example 4 years ago I was on a train at 70 mph via Google maps on my phone and questioned the driver indeed we were doing 70 mph

[@13thdukeofwybourne69]

Quite possibly the most important M62 related Auto shenanigans video made this week.

[@philipsmith9387]

Said with a note of sarcasm.😅🤣😂👍

[@davidroddini1512]

A reservoir with a highway crossing over where the water is blocked? Dam!

[@johnriggs4929]

I worked for two weeks, in March 1969, for a joiner who was short of work, and we ended up shuttering on that damned bridge. Two pairs of jeans, two jumpers and a denimn jacket under my donkey jacket, and it was still bloody freezing. Ten years later, in March 1979, I was working on the other side of the pennines, in Shaw. It started snowing. I'd just pulled out someone's front door and side panel, so had to finish the job. I set off back home at 3.00pm, assuming the M62 - which the 'expert' designers had assured us all would never close, because it had been so designed that any snow would just blow off it, would be flowing freely. It was blocked; nothing moved. I stayed in the car overnight, then in the morning, followed a convoy of cars and trucks, lead by a police range rover, through a narrow path that had been cut through the twelve foot drifts on the Eastbound carriageway. That was the last time I took any notice of 'experts.'

[@Dan23_7]

That’s a brilliant story and it was a pleasure to read. It’s usually traffic that closes it nowadays isn’t it.

[@Mustang00007]

Experts, x = unknown quantity, Spert= water under pressure!

[@robbiehillier1760]

There is a video on youtube called 'GMP motorway group 1979 traffic policing' based on the M62. Quite an eye opener that snow. You might have seen it @johnriggs4929 already though.

[@stevekelly5166]

Donkey Jacket. When I joined the railway in 1981, you had to be measured and wait for one of those for months and then it did not fit by then when you were still growing. You had it easy. 🙂

[@M0UAW_IO83]

I assume you're 'expert' at your job though? Seriously, I remember seeing news items about the M62 up there and those people trapped in cars, I believe the worst bits of the carriageway are now electrically heated to help keep it open.

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Theres a great woman who leaves messages of hope on that bridge as apparently its sadly a place where those with no hope often go. That woman may have saved many lives.

[@johnriggs4929]

Sadly, it happens every now and again. If you get stuck in the hold up, when it happens, it's infuriating... until you spare a thought for the poor bugger whose life was in such a state that ending it like that seemed the way out.

[@SPTSuperSprinter156]

that's why it has those high barriers, they were added a few years ago. Previously there was just chest high metal barriers, which made it quite unpleasant to walk over regardless of one's state of mind. Fabulous views of the motorway from the bridge though, slightly less so with the higher barriers.

[@willtricks9432]

A motorway two parter with a Car Park in the middle. A perfect Auto Shenanigan sandwich. Very filling.

[@andrewjones-productions]

It always amazes me how John can make something like a bridge, road or tunnel sound like the most interesting thing ever. That is something to be respected and most certainly not sneered at.

[@seldom_seen_kid]

The M62 towards 'Ull is one of those roads thats seems to go on and on and on and on...

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Funny how that works. I used to drive to Hull before the M62 existed, so I had to skirt the south side of Leeds and on to Selby, and it always seemed like a pleasant drive that didn't take too long, but going there on the motorway today feels like it takes forever. Maybe it's just boring as heck ?

[@martinoutdoors6941]

It’s a testament to your presenting as I can’t believe I would find videos about motorways secrets this interesting. 😁👍 Thank you.

[@BMWMike]

Great work. I used to live in Birkenshaw, just by the wide A58 bridge. There is a cracking story of a Halifax Bomber crashing in the field next to the A58 during the war. Tom Scotland was the young pilot on manoeuvres when he got into trouble. His crew bailed out and he put the plane down into the field next to the A58 but also avoiding the village of Drub.

[@bigward1984]

What did Huddersfield do to hurt you? Just entirely jumped past the secret junction just after Scammonden, the uni directional J23 plus 24 and 25 😱

[@David_Crayford]

I had forgotten about this rail crash. Eclipsed by significant unforgettable premeditated events later in 2001, which I stood watching live on cable TV with a visiting electrical engineer.

[@GBPaddling]

Bet you'd forgot about 'Foot and Mouth' and the 'Enron' scandal? My mate was a Financial Advisor and he reckoned it decimated the Stock Market along with Sept. 11th.

[@peterjszerszen]

I can't speak to the UK but in the US, the cost to add additional width to a bridge (to accommodate a future widening) works out to be about half the cost of adding it later (including inflation) but it only makes sense if it's reasonably presumed the roadway will be upgraded during the lifespan of the bridge, otherwise it's a waste. I work/live (as a highway engineering professional) in Michigan where we built most of our freeways from 1960-1980. Most of the significant bridges built during that time (especially over rivers) were built with extra wide piers to make widening the bridge in the future really easy. We are only now embarking on a massive infrastructure program and unfortunately most of those bridges are beyond their life and will be totally replaced. So in that case, it was kind of a "waste" to build all of the 'future possibilities' into it if it takes you 50+ years to get around to doing it. We just finally finished the US-31 freeway 51 years after it was started, so sometimes things take longer than planned.

[@Nyx773]

What's up with doing major repairs on I-94 around Battle Creek and not taking the opportunity to add another lane in each direction? No matter what time of day, it is clogged.

[@MemskiBobSki]

Love these videos. Educational, informative, hilarious. I won't drive down a motorway without thinking "what has Jon found out about this one?".

[@richard1313]

Thanks - very interesting. I've driven the M62 hundreds of times and you've told me a few new things. We have a running joke that I always tell my wife about the highest motorway point trivia when we drive to Manchester, but never knew I also live just near the lowest point (now I'm going to be doubly annoying).

[@jollyboyspecial]

That highest motorway point is where the rain usually starts when you leave Yorkshire heading west

[@beeble2003]

There's a sign for the highest point, isn't there?

[@lawrencesinderson]

"wicked sweet awesome" has become our family catchphrase

[@AutoShenanigans]

that's wicked sweet awesome!

[@rogerbarton1790]

There is a nice video of Fred Dibnah crossing the Scammonden Bridge in a steam-roller (or traction engine) towing a living van.

[@lukashodgson]

Thank you for including a Northern Rail jibe ❤️👌

[@Trek001]

Northern Rail haven't run trains for several years The successor national company Northern Trains do

[@vespasian606]

Yeah ..... that driver. Accidents happen but he seems to have a bit of a judgement problem. Staying up all night and falling alseep at the wheel were two connected events but not according to him. All the deaths occurred 700 yards down the track from his car so that meant it was someone elses fault. Apparently. He prefers to think of it as fate. Where's Karma when you need it.

[@MrBreadman1966]

After the crash investigation took place crash barriers on most roads that crossover railway lines were extended as the land rover went over the edge where the barriers ended.

[@TarmanYoloSwag]

@@MrBreadman1966 It's really hard to protect people from dangerous drivers, they come up with new and inovative ways to kill all the time.

[@malcolmyoung7866]

All bridges crossing railways were assessed and upgraded with extra barriers if so required. On the M6 south of Tebay a section of barrier runs parallel to the motorway for approximately 40 Metres or so.. and it’s about the same distance from the motorway hard shoulder. Only recently a wood that has grown since the accident was felled although I think it would… have been better to have left that as is.

[@justinadcock4536]

Wasn’t he up all night on a phone call to a “ premium” telephone number. That’s what I heard. He is definitely delusional. I could only wish his fate that morning was hitting a tree. “The trains gone through the front of my Land Rover”… what do expect when you put it on a railway line

[@typhoon2827]

He was bang to rights. But.... Wooden fences on the approach to railway overbridges? Any responsibility by civil engineers there? They were quick to upgrade every bridge after that. We've all driven whilst tired, I don't care how pious you are; another few yards either way and no one would have ever heard of him. So whilst falling asleep at the wheel ultimately led to the deaths of the passengers (and train driver I think), the time and place he fell asleep and the timings of the trains were all a staggeringly unlikely chain of slices of swiss cheese. By comparison, a friend of my sister fell asleep at the wheel on her way back from London having spent the day and most of the evening at a works Christmas party, burning the candle at both ends, so to speak, crashed off the motorway and turned over in a field, found dead. Treated like a wonderful human being, huge outpouring of grief from everyone and I was the arsehole for saying it was lucky she didn't kill anyone else just because she was driving while tired... 🙄

[@antonyfletcher991]

My grandad was an Undertaker in the village of Milnrow at the time of construction of the bridge. He was contracted as the , for want of a better word, "Body collector" for the poor unfortunate souls that didn't make it home from work on a given day. A small part of the death toll on the bridge and surrounding work, at least 2 he recalled, was due to the guys on site rolling back to the work camps after a night on the town, and falling from the bridge, He would be woken up at 3am in the morning to go collect. It is difficult to find casualty figures for back then, however he recalls some of the lads were cash in hand and not necessarily accounted for. One fatality is always one to many.

[@egpx]

Pedantic Yorkshireman here: the Scam in Scammonden is pronounced Scam, not Scarm. I can remember the bridge there being built. Traffic was diverted down a steep temporary road, across the motorway which was under construction, and back up the other side. I think you can still see evidence of this temporary arrangement to this day, more than fifty years later. There’s a similar but narrower bridge at Windy Hill that you could have mentioned in Part One. It carries the Pennine Way footpath over the motorway.

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

He probably got fed up with doing the research but pronunciation is important. 👍

[@Jimbo-gi7xn]

@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 I live in a village in Kent called Lyminge.. that's very often mispronounced as you can imagine..(it's pronounced 'Limminge')

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

@@Jimbo-gi7xn 😁😁 I prefer the alternative although incorrect !!!

[@Jimbo-gi7xn]

@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 there is in fact a local roadsign that has been altered so many times, by the removal of two letters, that the whole sign has recently been taken away altogether by Highways lol Even the locals say "La Minge" 🤣

[@typhoon2827]

​@@Jimbo-gi7xn never heard of it but that's how I'd have pronounced it. But I can speak English, innit.

[@markyoung2059]

Thanks as always for a great video Jon. Looking forward to you getting proper north and crossing the border again - the pizza crunch awaits!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks mate. Yes.. i'll be up soon!

[@rileyuktv6426]

Love the nerdy question for railway nerds - by a road nerd ❤

[@abarratt8869]

What's odd is that the walls for the ventilation shaft tops appear to be about 12, 13 meters across, whilst the tunnel itself is listed as being only 7.9 meters wide. It's not clear whether the ventilation shafts themselves are that wide from what I can see on Google Earth.

[@Anmeteor9663]

It think it's all to do with helping to draw the smoke up and out of the tunnel

[@JohnSmith-bx8zb]

The bridge features in Fred Dibnahs ‘Made in Britain’ TV series when he took his steam engine towing its caravan across it. Fantastic film and pictures of the event .

[@darren25061965]

Fred also had to get a special permit to cross that bridge using a Traction engine, cannot remember the reason why.

[@Snowy1of1]

​@@darren25061965 Possibly weight related due to the weight and vibrations of Freds roller traction engine. RiP Fred, what a guy!

[@DavidShepheard]

I remember that rail crash. And while all the media was roasting the driver for driving while being too tired to concentrate as well as sending text messages, my thought was on "Why did the people designing the motorway not build a barrier that stops vehicles dropping onto the railway tracks? The highway code says "Assume everyone else is an idiot". And the people designing barriers for roads that cross railways or other roads, should assume that idiots are going to drive off of the motorway at full speed. I've seen some pretty cool gravel traps designed to catch runaway lorries, so I know that the technology exists to slow down and stop a vehicle that crosses the hard shoulder.

[@jester-lester]

The tunnel ventilation shaft is oval shaped because it isn't round. ...and Northern Rail couldn't run a bath let alone a train service!!

[@fishman494]

0:29 when building Scammonden Bridge it took 72 mile of scaffolding poles l, it’s a fact I remember but not sure where it came from. Excellent video

[@Mike-H_UK]

Hey, an interesting lighthouse right at the very end. I don't know about other viewers, but I was mightily disappointed that Jon did not show the custom-made sign warning walkers about crossing the bridge under conditions of high wind. I'll have to make a trip there myself to see that.. I will also take in the unadvertised Old Long Lane motorway entrance for no reason in particular, just because I can......

[@Mike-H_UK]

@@PStaveley Yep. One would assume that someone in authority would have decided that leaving access to an unofficial motorway entry point was not a good idea!!

[@AutoShenanigans]

I visited the secret junction on two separate days to find both sets of gates open. I think i counted 5 cars using it :D

[@stepheneyles2198]

@@AutoShenanigans one of which was a grey BMW with a KZbinr in it by any chance?

[@Woody93185]

This is one of the 3 motorways I’ve been particularly excited to see in this series. 2 more to go lol

[@chrisblay]

The Selby Great Heck rail crash was almost exactly twenty two years ago. Sounds haunting listening to that emergency phone call from the Land Rover driver.

[@grindelston5968]

God, I remember that, seems like it were only about 11 or 12 year ago

[@robertcook2572]

I've been crossing the Ouse bridge since it opened and I don't think the bloody thing's been fully open for more than fifty weeks of its nearly fifty year's life. Mind you, it's still better than the traffic queues when the old Boothferry bridge was opened for ships to pass...

[@misterwhipple2870]

I heard that the Lord of Balls has his seat on the Ouse River. Does this Lordship still exist?

[@mistakay9019]

typical land rover owner even had to remind the 999 operators that the train did in fact go through the front of his land rover. Great video Jon, a lot of well-researched and entertaining content about something I never knew I was so interested in! :)

[@combatking0]

He definitely sounded more annoyed at the destruction of his pweshus wand wover than he did worried about the danger it posed to railway crew & passengers.

[@QuantumLeclerc]

@@combatking0 Considering he was driving extremely sleep deprived, cross country because he stayed up all night flirting with a woman on the internet, I think he was just kinda disoriented. He crashed because he fell asleep at the wheel afiak

[@jonnyroberts225]

@@QuantumLeclerc I seem to recall he was also towing a car on a trailer too.

[@PenryMMJ]

I commute using Northern trains, and can confirm that they do still run, sometimes, if you're lucky (or unlucky).

[@philipsmith9387]

My Father was responsible for laying the Drainage, between Tingley roundabout and Saddleworth Moor Top, the highest point. This section was finished 6 Months ahead of schedule. I was always told that his name is on a memorial plaque just off Saddleworth top. Never seen it as it's at the side of the Motorway. His name was R.P.Smith.

[@Dan23_7]

Another motorway I’m on a hell of a lot. I never knew the oval stone thing was a big shaft. PCD 3:56 😂 I also didn’t realise I was driving across a dam at Scammonden. I’ll be looking for those ghost slip roads the next time I’m on it (off work til early April ☹️) Excellent episode yet again 👌🏼

[@tardismole]

I think your best bet on finding out about the reason for the odd shape of the air/construction shafts is to ask Martin Zero. He's on youtube. He is an oficionado of all things connected to mills and mining, and in particular tunnels. He may already have a video or two on this particulr railway line/tunnel already. Since most shafts are round, these ones are bounds to have peaked his interest. And the name certainly sounds familiar.

[@MikeyDunn]

There's a big problem with it ending at the A63 now though, the A63 is no longer fit for purpose thanks to the amount of traffic now coming from Hull, Beverley, and the surrounding villages which are rapidly growing into towns themselves, like Brough (and the Brough junction is a nightmare of an accident blackspot which only seems to be getting worse). The A63 also has a recurring problem with becoming flooded between North Cave and Brough, yet despite resurfacing work carried out over the past 20 years no effort has been made to either raise the road or improve it's drainage, that I can see. Ideally the M62 needs extending to at least Melton, or better still, the Humber Bridge.

[@JD-wn3cc]

Good to get footage of the ouse bridge, before it collapses into the water. As a local and a regular user of that route, the bridge hasn't had all 6 lanes open or a national speed limit for about 7 years now. No real work is seen to take place and other than barrier upgrades, its never had any significant maintenance work done in its lifespan. There's talk that traffic is restricted now, currently 4 lanes, contraflow, and 30mph, to try and prevent more damage, rather than invest in it. And as for Gary Hart, I hope that monster lives forever.

[@DumDum306]

This might be the best episode yet. Actually tempted to try and drive all the M62 to see the sights myself.

[@bryansmith1920]

Don't even think about it step away from the vehicle and give your keys to a responsable adult With the very badly trained/selfish drivers of today Nahh just bang your head against brick wall it'll have the same effect

[@philipsmith9387]

As a retired HGV driver I have travelled the full length of the M62 on numerous occasions. One Monday my boss said only two drops today, Liverpool and Hull. Take your pick which ones first.😁

[@nathanmiller4344]

Great video! I go to the university of hull so drove on the M62 just two days ago to go home for reading week. The Ouse Bridge is definitely the most memorable part of the journey - especially because of current roadworks which mean it’s got a 30mph limit.

[@Bluefire397]

Could you do an episode on planned but ultimately cancelled motorways? Such as the M650 in the Aire Valley.

[@markgr1nyer]

That call from Gary Hart always sends shivers down my spine

[@cassiedunford6101]

I live near Scammonden and one of the things we do around here to keep the Yorkshire Puddings off is park next to the dam, run along it and down the track, then up those 458 steps several times - great fun

[@andrewgardner9615]

Old speed hillclimb venue at Scammonden dam.You can still see a bit of armco ,where the track used to end , as you travel eastbound along the 62. Might fit in with the series of videos about old race tracks?

[@mrbluesky2050]

did some marshalling on that, hell of a walk up from the bottom corner......

[@robbiehillier1760]

Due to the great heck rail disaster, after the enquiries and investigations every road bridge over a railway line had safety barriers fitted to the roadside eachside.

[@foreverrescued]

I don't even drive, so why am I excited for these videos?

[@firesurfer]

3:17 Seems a perfect opportunity for a drone inspection. On a windless day of course.

[@keithdouglas7154]

I respect what you do very educational .

[@jollyboyspecial]

An interesting thing you missed out at Scammonden dam is the hillclimb track. Short, nasty and brutish as these things go.

[@1_5RCBiker]

I've always wondered about the ghost slip roads near J30, now I know. Thank you!

[@EP3Stuff]

My Auntie and uncle used to run the fish and chip shop/newsagents in Ferrybridge (on the Pontefract road, now called Ferry Bridge Fisheries) we used to visit twice a year and as kids we marvelled at the cooling towers (which you could see from their garden) as there was simply nothing like it in rural Cornwall. Sorry for the digression 😂

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Goonhilly beats it, in my book.

[@spudmurphy764]

I remember on my first visit to Cornwall in the early 70s seeing the massive china clay waste heaps - totally alien landscape! All gone now of course - just like the waste heaps from the coal mines in Lancs and Yorks.🙂

[@burtuppercut]

I paused watching Who Dares Wins to watch this and it was well worth it!

[@groovyboovy]

nice one, that bridge near Goole, good for absailing off

[@malcolmcog]

Please continue to do a feature on the Humber Bridge !

[@simontrill540]

For other interesting concrete structures, take a look at Stockwell bus garage - wonderful piece or architecture!

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Another great and informative video, I remember that crash like it was yesterday at Selby.

[@Aja9999]

Brilliant video once again - one of your best! More of the dramatic rising drone shots at the end please

[@AutoShenanigans]

Cheers mate, appreciate that!

[@BLOWN8CYLINDER]

My workshop is on Long Lane , next to the RAF Snaith Museum at a former dispersed WAAF site that served the main airfield.

[@Roblilley999]

Remember the old Ferrybridge services, before they realigned the motorway, was always a toilet break, from A180 in the east to the A1 in the north

[@sr6424]

I thought you were going to say - ‘The sign warning of high winds blew away’!

[@JonosBtheMC]

Let us not forget that Gary Hart still says he wasn't responsible for the disaster... because the train derailed AFTER it smashed through his Land Rover. He just drove a Land Rover and trailer off the motorway onto a railway without even applying the brakes because he was asleep, how can you blame him?

[@jack4688]

After watching your Oliver’s Mount video earlier this week I’m disappointed you didn’t cover Scammonden Dam Hillclimb. Not as accessible as Oliver’s Mount but interesting nonetheless

[@bryansmith1920]

As a ex HGV driver out of Peterborough Camb, I know the M62 very well picking up loads out of Hull through to Liverpool for Perkins Engines one night run we used to do(not doable during daytime)was Peterborough N on A1 to M62 W to Bradford tip/reload back on M62 W to M6 S to Stafford tip/reload Liecester tip/reload Peterborough all in a shift night drivers had to be back on site with trucks for dayshift drivers NO excuses 🤐

[@astronomenov99]

There is a tenuous Sir Bradley Wiggins connection. In 2015 he attempted to break the 10 mile time trial record on what is known as V718. On the A63 at South Cave, which is pretty much the continuation of the M62, he set a time of 17m 58s which was not enough to break the record. This TT course is regarded as the fastest in the UK.

[@papalegba6796]

He's also 62 years old, same number as the M62.

[@siabell]

@@papalegba6796 42

[@papalegba6796]

@@siabell Wikipedia says he was born in 1959. That makes him 62 years old.

[@siabell]

@@papalegba6796 Bradley Walsh, TV presenter/comedian/actor is 62. Sir Bradley Wiggins, Olympic Champion Cyclist and first British Tour de France winner, is 42. According to Wikipedia he was born in Belgium in 1980. If Wiggins was born in 1959 he would have been 52 years old when he won the Tour de France. I know drugs are good nowadays, but they're not THAT good 😂

[@papalegba6796]

@@siabell born in Belgium 😂😂😂

[@stevec1097]

Sat here with a beer 🍺 having hundreds of lovely facts blast out my TV screen at warp factor 10 - love it Jon your channel is ACE!

[@technoandrew]

Really sobering to hear that 999 call from the infamous Land Rover driver. Excellent video John as always. Was the 'late night' comment at the start intentional foreshadowing, or just coincidence?

[@bobshop]

Knowing Jon a very good secret Pun that is there for the intellectual among us!

[@stevekelly5166]

@@bobshop kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnjKoKR9hbuaeMk

[@saippuakivikuappias]

I knew the driver of the freight train involved. Absolute gem of a man.

[@misterwhipple2870]

Did he survive? After all, he was first at the scene of the accident. And that Land-Rover driver must have had a cell phone.

[@vinniesuperstar8923]

That's the best one you've done for a while.

[@gazzaman28]

Hey Mr Shenanigans, I know you're working on the motorways at the moment, but please tell me you have a plan to do a video about the entire A361. That would be wicked sweet awesome X

[@glennpowell3444]

There was an excellent documentary on TV several years ago on the M62 construction.I seem to recall it was built by McAlpines and was a very challenging engingineering feat.That bridge I have seen many times and its awesome frankly.Just a fun fact McAlpine began in the late 1800,s by Robert McAlpine who earned the nickname "Concrete Bob".The famous viaduct featured in the film Harry Potter in scotland was one of his cast from concrete to carry the railway.

[@simontrill540]

Glenfinnan viaduct

[@AFCManUk]

Wow, what an epic video! So much to see on the M62, making it more of a journey of discovery than a bland trudge along a motorway. Good stuff!

[@matnichol]

The best thing to come out of Yorkshire.

[@markgallaway5574]

Newish to the channel and I just went back to some of the earlier videos, and you have gotten a lot better. Plus I get the hat now!

[@AutoShenanigans]

haha... yes, hat keeps things in order.

[@andrewking2193]

I love a good bridge, but what is better than that? A dam tunnel that runs under a motorway. I must say, I don't know how your going to top this video.... Great video John, keep it up. One suggestion for April, instead of asking us what we've been up to you should tell us what you've been up to. Thanks for always making my day.

[@UncleNewy1]

6:43 We once used the Long Lane exit to get out of standing traffic. We were travelling back to Pontefract from Hull after playing football, and the traffic backed up for some reason........after about 20 minutes, some guy got out of his car just before the bridge and opened the gate........Everyone that knew the area, and could get out, followed him through, and then we all turned right at that little junction and then went back over the bridge. I can imagine the residents of the quiet villages around Hensall and Eggborough wondering what the hell was happening!

[@TheMightyKinkle]

The Ouse bridge is currently under repairs again! They did it a few years ago but then the seals underneath failed or something like that. So they are having to redo it all again. Apparently there is only one company in the whole world that makes them.

[@damedavidfrith55]

Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting 🧐

[@UncleB52]

My nan used to tell me as a child that there are several tunnels which allowed the farmers to move their livestock to the fields on the other side by going underneath the motorway.

[@joandchrismarchant1080]

There is a Scout campsite nestled in the bend near the Brighouse exit. Campfires have been known to result in the fire brigade turning up after someone on the motorway noticed the smoke!

[@davidpearson2039]

Did I miss a mention of the secret entry to the M62 westbound from Hartshead Moor services? Since WYP RPG vacated their site the gates have never closed allowing access to and from the services from High Moor lane (off the A649).

[@kimmyk4425]

There also used to be a “bridge to nowhere “ across the M62 where the Hensall services were going to be. It was there for years before they finally removed it.

[@paulm1701]

Well I'll be damned! Another great episode of Auto Shenanigans. 😄

[@DavidAspden]

Did it in the dark Saturday night for that extra special experience!!

[@kenmorris100]

Food for thought the next time I head East along the M62. I love to know here you come off the Motorway to film your clips! Regarding the ventilation shafts originally 18 working shafts were sunk so that work could proceed at a clearance rate of 300 yards (270 m) per month. Of these as you mentioned in the video there are four permanent vent/construction shafts still in use today at Town End, Hopewell Farm, America Moor and Howley Park. At one time, men worked at 48 different points along the length of the tunnel. This was made possible by using steam engines to lower men down the working shafts to the level of the tunnel and raising stone and clay to the surface. These shafts would as a consequence be larger than for simple ventilation and may have influenced the oval shape as well as proving the vortex effect.

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video John, incredible engineering involved to build that lot 👍😀👌

[@albertperks3476]

Nice touch playing "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" at the end.

[@Zeem4]

You've just reminded me of Bill Oddie's Joe Cocker pisstake version.

[@joeweston3252]

not a fan of concrete but that span bridge is impressive though you would blow the cobwebs away walking over it,the dam is a great feat of engineering interesting M62 is the highest and lowest motorway another good one john.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Cheers mate. It's quite a good bridge, I got lucky and it wasnt too windy on the day.

[@wenlocke]

@@AutoShenanigans There is a sad part to the Scammonden bridge story, however. It's notorious locally for the number of people who've jumped from it over the years (which is why the fences are so high.) There's samaritans signs all over the bridge.

[@joeweston3252]

@@wenlocke thats so tragic not nice to hear that 😥

[@danielmarshall4587]

"scarr-mon-den" oh yes jolly good, bit like "sour-bee-bridge" the people who live there how you say? they say scam-n-din and saw-bi. we're a rough lot. Thank you for lifting the tone with another splendid video.

[@MartinE63]

Not to mention Slaithwaite

[@danielmarshall4587]

@@MartinE63 OH MY GOOD GOD ALL MIGHTY...... forgot that one entirely "slough-it".

[@GBPaddling]

The best one is Staithes on the Yorkshire coast, pronounced 'Steers.'

[@GBPaddling]

A cud go ter foot of our staithes.

[@christopherthompson2078]

My week always gets excited when it gets to Sunday and I know that John is on ,cos he's always miles away from his home lol 😆 he will be needing a new car soon x lol x

[@graemeorr3859]

M62 mentioned by name on the song 'Driving Away from Home' by Its Immaterial in 1986.

[@tobyjackman3212]

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

[@susansmiles2242]

I used to drive over the Scammonden bridge every day on my way home from work

[@speedy83]

As the owner of a lightweight slab-sided vehicle I think the high winds of the M62 make it one of my least favourite roads, but this video was very interesting nonetheless. Keep up the good work :)

[@donalddodson7365]

Jon, it is always a good week with Secrets of the Motorway. Hope yours is good, too. Scarminton¿ Bridge has a cousin near me: Google Maps U.S. Interstate 15 and the Lilac Road overpass. Take care.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Oh yes, looks identical. Thanks.

[@travellingjourneys7840]

The only motorway I have driven on where my ears popped at the summit; it's that high, but living in East Anglia where I do, a slight incline is a challenge....:) Loving the videos so much now that I just subscribed.

[@6thdayblue59]

Brilliant as always.... Thank you.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks friend! really appreciate that.

[@gillylod]

Strange that this comes up as a suggested video in the evening when I've travelled the length of this motorway today... is youtube watching me oooooh

[@LeonDJgamerplayz]

lol 😆

[@stepheneyles2198]

The backdrops which you find for your videos are fantastic - especially love the pipes and pylon at 3:55! ;-))

[@chrisaston-roebuck2676]

My favourite channel John. Never change.