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
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 😎
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.
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
*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*
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.
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.
How scary the motorway looks without central crash barriers. Like the 'Peak' at the end, too.
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
Thank you for this. Great film. Great days back then. 👍🇬🇧
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 😎
Wow!!! The good old days when you could get out of 2nd gear on the M6
Looks like the site of the former Betley Road station at the end
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.
If only it was like that today! Heaven
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
Tailgating was impossible, then. Brake checking was never heard of.
Good old days, where the Tarmac was Thick and Hard, not like these days, thin layer
😂😂😂😂😂
No middle barriers.
The mk 2 jaguar rules...
*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*
Very light traffic of course - depends on what time of the day ...
Looks a bit like that now in that area with the removal of the central crash barrier as they upgrade to a smart motorway
Regular motorway traffic then, still less than in a present day lockdown
A long time ago yet that long ago at all
I live on the M6 (Nantwich Junction 16)
Can’t be the M6, there’s no bollards.
3:20 Windows wall paper, so that is where they got it from....
The good old days. It would be nice to see a few more police cars on the roads and not just the motorways 🤣
No Audio...disjointed video...but Old and rear video...great to see....save it for posterity
I live just off junction 10 and starting to hate this piece of tarmac with a passion
Shame its not like that now
Oh look a hard shoulder and hardly any vehicles
This looks so crap I mean look at the sand the cars it’s so so weird to today’s cars
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.
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.
@@lewstone1934 too true mate
I G T. You don't know your alive mate.
Life was good then