M1 Junction 2
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M1 Junction 2
https://www.britishpathe.com/thumbnails.php?id=86571
Not sure if this has been posted before, but I think I've found the original M1 Jucntion 2 on the British Pathe website.
As you approach the junction you can see the signs for A1 Hatfield & Aylesbury on the right. On the left you will see a National Petrol station. National became part of BP and there is still a BP station on the site. There is also a bus stop on the left, which I believe is still there.
Enjoy!
Nick
Not sure if this has been posted before, but I think I've found the original M1 Jucntion 2 on the British Pathe website.
As you approach the junction you can see the signs for A1 Hatfield & Aylesbury on the right. On the left you will see a National Petrol station. National became part of BP and there is still a BP station on the site. There is also a bus stop on the left, which I believe is still there.
Enjoy!
Nick
Last edited by Nick_A34 on Mon Sep 11, 2006 15:08, edited 1 time in total.
looks right to me
The building about 12 s in is still on the A41 (A1) just past fiveways junction - I think it's a Nissan garage now. The BP station is actually further up now, probably where the Motorway sign is. What it doesn't show is how the road crosses over the motorway onto the right side. Oh, you can put any details in and then download it.
Phil
Phil
Great footage isn't it. I got a bit confused by it first time it was posted on here but never got round to posting about it. Having watched it again today, I'm either lost or it all seems jumbled up to me.
We start off approaching a set of lights with the M1 slip road just beyond. But there's no junction there now, is there? So what road merged in from the left, just after the National garage? The M1 is there now isn't it?
The M1 j1-j2 presumably hasn't been built yet (or finished) if this mystery road is still there. The long line of hitch-hikers seems to confirm this (it is, after all, the start of the M1 out of London at this time). As does the big blue motorway works sign (I'm guessing this says "London to Yorkshire Motorway (M.1)").
And yet as we follow the curving slip road, we have a carriageway merging in from the left seemingly - evidenced by the lighting columns to our left and the merge warning signs. I can only assume this is the northbound M1 mainline - but if so, then it must be open. Or is this some other road merging in from the left with us becoming the mainline?
I'm confused...
Anyhow, those lighting columns are great - concrete ones and the steel ones. And it leaves me all misty eyed to see roads how they should be, unencumbered by clutter, red markings, hatchings, yellow-backed signs - and suburban NSL dual carriageways!
We start off approaching a set of lights with the M1 slip road just beyond. But there's no junction there now, is there? So what road merged in from the left, just after the National garage? The M1 is there now isn't it?
The M1 j1-j2 presumably hasn't been built yet (or finished) if this mystery road is still there. The long line of hitch-hikers seems to confirm this (it is, after all, the start of the M1 out of London at this time). As does the big blue motorway works sign (I'm guessing this says "London to Yorkshire Motorway (M.1)").
And yet as we follow the curving slip road, we have a carriageway merging in from the left seemingly - evidenced by the lighting columns to our left and the merge warning signs. I can only assume this is the northbound M1 mainline - but if so, then it must be open. Or is this some other road merging in from the left with us becoming the mainline?
I'm confused...
Anyhow, those lighting columns are great - concrete ones and the steel ones. And it leaves me all misty eyed to see roads how they should be, unencumbered by clutter, red markings, hatchings, yellow-backed signs - and suburban NSL dual carriageways!
Looking at Get-a-map, I can only assume that before the j1-j2 stretch was built, the A1 to M1 flyover at the Fiveways Junction predates the M1 extension and carried northbound A1 traffic onto the A1 (not M1) just past the National garage? The map seems to suggest the footbridge is still there.BobSykes wrote:So what road merged in from the left, just after the National garage? The M1 is there now isn't it?
Still doesn't explain the carriageway joining the M1 from the left at old j2 - unless there was another slip road from the A1 flyover onto the M1 which followed the current M1 mainline?
Apologies for answering my own questions (!), but this 1975 map seems to confirm the position was as per my last post:
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/gallery/d ... =0&pos=263
I guess you all knew this anyway...
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/gallery/d ... =0&pos=263
I guess you all knew this anyway...
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If you look carefully, you can still see the old slips and even old underpass.
I've seen some pics of these here somewhere as well.
SJ
I've seen some pics of these here somewhere as well.
SJ
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Looking on Google Earth, that footbridge isn't the one that's there now.
Now, on the video, skip to about 40 seconds. You can see fast moving traffic coming from the left, so presumably, it is what is now the M1 mainline, and merged in like a standard slip road. This would mean that Bob's map is partially correct, as in there was a right-hand entry. It doesn't show Fiveways very well, but this is what I think it used to be like.
Now, on the video, skip to about 40 seconds. You can see fast moving traffic coming from the left, so presumably, it is what is now the M1 mainline, and merged in like a standard slip road. This would mean that Bob's map is partially correct, as in there was a right-hand entry. It doesn't show Fiveways very well, but this is what I think it used to be like.
Oh yes, they are!Derek wrote:Yes there was, I rmemeber that. I seem to think Tom Sutch posted them, but they're not on his Apex Corner site.mittfh wrote:Im sure I remember seeing a thread or article sometime about the M1 J2 temporary terminus - including a photographic tour of what remains today...
Can I throw this (unfortunately, a bit too diagrammatic) map into the mix, too (from the BP 1975 atlas)...
I'm still completely puzzled as to how the Fiveways Corner junction looked. My guess is that before the M1 arrived at all, there was a temporary Hogarth/Temple Meads style flyover for A1-A1 northbound traffic (the red flyover), then this was removed and replaced by the big concrete flyovers for M1 -- I can't imagine the situation on the map above actually existing
OldJ2 Southbound exit
The Old junction 2 southbound exit still exists. If you park in the homebase/argos carpark, there are steps down from the A41 (A1) and you can walk along it. Or there is a road that goes under the A41 (A1) that you can get to it by. It would be useful if you could still get onto the M1 from the A41.
Phil
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Or more easilier... go to http://www.btinternet.com/~roads/pix/m1 ... oldj2.html
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You obviously haven't heard the expression, "Nobody loves a smarta*se".BigToe wrote:Or more easilier... go to http://www.btinternet.com/~roads/pix/m1 ... oldj2.html
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You're not? That's newsBigToe wrote:Heh... I'm not a smarta*se, I can just remember old websites I visitSabrista wrote: You obviously haven't heard the expression, "Nobody loves a smarta*se".
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You got me! But, I didn't even have to see the link to know the URL it pointed to... all I read from that post was theTom wrote:Or ones that are linked to two messages above yoursBigToe wrote:Heh... I'm not a smarta*se, I can just remember old websites I visit
and the map
Or I just didn't look before I typed
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