I wonder if it's having a few people round.
Obviously used it a few times, never been really stuck in it, in fact I was on it on July 7th 2005 when it was most spooky.
Any other happy memories ?
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Having a breakdown truck pull off the hard shoulder in front of me on a motorway lesson in the late eighties. The pupil learnt what a REAL emergency stop was that day.
The North Circular is a quicker way from east to west than going many miles north on that thing.
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I was stuck in the first jam. It was an hour after Maggie opened the final section, junction 10 to 9 I seem to recall.
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Hence the delays yesterday. They must've been putting the decorations up.
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if im correct they used the m25 for motorway shooting during the making of withnail and I back in 87 before it was opened
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Certain sections were open in the late 70's early eighties . I can remember having a blast in a XJS HE in 1981 getting up to an indicated 155 just before the road ran out at Reigate.
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I can remember getting on around the A1 and having to come off and go through Maple Cross and Denham to join it again.
Pat
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Everyone you speak to moans about it, forgetting the nightmare that getting around the Capital used to be before it.
Living in Northamptonshire, regularly loading into and out of Dagenham, Tilbury and Kent ports, trying to get around to Gatwick area was a nightmare, usually quicker to go straight through the centre of London, learned all sorts of unsuitable back routes which worked.
And as for that western side, the battle around Windsor, Slough, Denham, Watford etc, people soon forget, it's possible that the weight limits round Harefield might have been ignored a few times in order to get home, and nipping past Scammells in Tolpits Lane to try and get past the standstill that was the Rickmansworth and the North Orbital.
Anyone try to get round the A25 when the M25 has been blocked?, that's what it was like all the time before.
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>> Everyone you speak to moans about it, forgetting the nightmare that getting around the Capital
>> used to be before it.
Yes. Good point GB. Easy to forget that. I'm as guilty as anyone.
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For me, to get to the M1, meant a slog into the outskirts of london, up the North circular ( in its day then a crap road) about 1.5 hours.
Now to join the M1 (further up as well) is about 40 minutes.
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It certainly makes getting from the M1 to Dover much easier.
Round about 1973 we went on our first driving trip to France. Apart from all the complications of hiring a Hillman Hunter spares kit from the AA we had to navigate from Staples Corner via the NCR to the Dartford Tunnel and onto the A2/M2/A2. Dad had some AA route books printed concertina style with N/B and S/B routes on opposite sides.
Nowadays we just follow the signs.
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>> getting on around the A1 and having to come off and go through Maple Cross and Denham to join it again
Me too, albeit as a passenger with my Dad when he was giving his colleagues a lift to or from Heathrow. We went down there the evening they opened the section under the "Give Peas A Chance" viaduct - lots of cones and a very circuitous route going south, and a shiny brand new, if slightly dusty, completely empty 3-lane motorway coming back :)
Years later, I saw a minicab near Denham with the registration "M25 DAV" - would have suited me perfectly.
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Sun 30 Oct 11 at 22:09
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M25 is 25 yeas old today - Robin O'Reliant
