Transpennine Snow signs

[Bryn666]

Yep, gone I'm afraid. It was past its best - the consecutive bad winters wrecked the remaining working parts and with the VMS it was deemed pointless to repair.

[Paul]

Looks like Kirklees are partway through a scheme to replace the snow warning signs of various vintages in and around Huddersfield with VMS installations, which makes sense from a purely practical and economic point of view, but for me some of the local character will be lost. Photos to follow.

[J--M--B]

There was something similar shown on the news last week in Teesdale, where snowblowers (essentially combine harversters with a badass fan on the front!) were sucking up the snow and dumping it about 3ft from the road edge - but they only went to the boundary of cumbria and turned around - leaving unknowing motorists who went up there on a clear road suddenly faced with a 3ft wall of snow! Not the most useful thing I've ever seen...

Years ago, in the days of the Regional Councils, I went down the A82 when there had been snow. The road was clear (i.e. no snow or ice) all the way to the regional boundary at Achallader where was then an inch or so of undisturbed snow on the road. It was quite amazing, they was actually a sharp transition as if the plough had stopper (or been lifted) right on the boundary. A few yards down the road there was a car off the road, there was no one injured so I did not stop (I have little sympathy for someone driving to fast on snow). Strathclyde Region had a poor reputation and travelling back from Argyll we knew that we would OK if we could get back into Highland because the roads would have been ploughed and gritted (in those days!).

[rhyds]

My Mum used to teach at a school outside Aberystwyth, but to get there had to drive through 3 counties: Gwynedd, Powys and the old Dyfed (now Ceredigion) and getting through depended on all 3 having sent their teams out. It wasn't that uncommon to see the straight on the A487 that had the border between Powys and Dyfed half way down it go from clear to deep, untreated snow at the county boundary sign.

[Berk]

There should be better arrangements for roads like that, just as there are with bridges.