These are taken from the title sequence in the recent program on BBC "How we built britain", does anyone know the road? Would like to add it to my list of 'roads to drive'. Cheers



ps the 'I' structure isn't actually there - i'm sure you realised that.

 

SO why did they put it there?

It's like one of my stupid dreams in which it's perfectly normal that I shag Kate Moss every night, and that Ferrari's can fly.

 

The only thin I can think of is the stretch between Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy on the A82.

Not sure though.

 

Needs more corners.

 

it's the feckin M6 somewhere between Preston and Carlisle.

Probably

 

I can name that road.

I realised the other day the bit of motorway on that channel 4 bumper is the M40/M25 junction I go through three times a week. And no, the giant 4 isn't actually there.

 

I think the whole thing is computer generated.

The second shot has lines on the side of the road and some kind of posts (telegraph poles?) in the field on the left.

Neither are there in the in-car shot which must theoretically be the same place because of the structure.

 

None of that road is both straight enough AND flat enough until you get closer to Rannoch Moor though.

Plus the tops of the hills are bare around there too.

Hills are too close to the road to be the Borders either imo.

My money's on somewhere in the Pennines or Dales rather than Scotland.

 

I think the Beeb operate a customer information centre specifically to answer questions like this. I used it years ago when I wanted to identify a piece of background music used in one of their programmes. The service probably still exists, unless its succumbed to their cutbacks of course.

(Music was by Philip Glass BTW).

 

Something screwy going on with that. Look at the angle of the lamp posts and trees on the left. the whole things been rotated so it's almost certainly a roadless valley.

In fact I think it's too much of a composite.