The 'Old' New A9

[Fallingup]

This might bring back some memories for anyone here that used to travel up the A9 in the 70's. I used to live near Dunkeld at the time and recognised a few faces.

https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/1962

[towser]

Fallingup said:

This might bring back some memories for anyone here that used to travel up the A9 in the 70's. I used to live near Dunkeld at the time and recognised a few faces.

https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/1962

That's a blast from the past. I used to travel from the north coast to the scottish borders to visit relatives every summer in the 70's / 80's and it was a 10 hour journey and hellish. It seemed that on every trip you witnessed the after effects of some bad accident, the garage at Calvine was always packed with terribly mangled cars. I know the new A9 has it's critics but it really was a meat grinder in its old form

[Fallingup]

towser said:

That's a blast from the past. I used to travel from the north coast to the scottish borders to visit relatives every summer in the 70's / 80's and it was a 10 hour journey and hellish. It seemed that on every trip you witnessed the after effects of some bad accident, the garage at Calvine was always packed with terribly mangled cars. I know the new A9 has it's critics but it really was a meat grinder in its old form

It was indeed. If you got stuck behind a lorry or a caravan, you were really stuffed. Interesting that one of the cops says that when the new A9 opened they had different kinds of accidents. I guess he meant more fatals. It would be interesting to see the statistics. There were better overtaking opertunities but the speed was higher.

Edited by Fallingup on Saturday 12th September 20:25