went to snake pass at weekend…
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Have they put speed cameras down this road yet? Used to blast down the A57 regularly. Knew every turn. Haven’t travelled down there for years now.
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Particularly like the last one!
Well considering there are road slips (crumbled away) i dont think they need speed cameras haha! But there is 2 or 3 sets of lights now from lady bower end, 
Yea i like that 1 best aswell
I grew up in Glossop. Used to cycle up or down there regularly after going to ladybower or Castleton. Once or twice overtook some cars on my bike.
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I use to travel that road every day on my journey to work.
I always remember when come back home one evening there was a fatal accident involving a motorbike next to the ladybower cafe lay-by. Over that way and someone still puts flowers at the spot.
Travelled down there one very rainy night. Weather was atrocious. Left Sheffield and noticed the road was unusually quiet, but I figured it was just because of the bad weather. So with an empty road and my obvious world beating driving skills I set about making good time on the run. Just before the reservoir I rounded a corner, into a dip, going at maybe 60-70mph and the road surface ahead just looked different … almost like heat haze when you drive in the desert. Only it wasn’t heat haze (obviously), it was about 2ft of standing water. A small watercourse up the hillside to my right had burst it’s banks and cascaded downhill. I managed to hit the brakes hard, then released them just before hitting the water. Probably hit it at around 35mph. Huge bow wave. Managed to stamp on the throttle to keep the water out of the exhaust and crawl through the water in 1st gear, rocks and branches had also washed downhill.
If the road had been at the bottom of a valley I’d have expected standing water, but halfway up a steep hill it didn’t compute at the time.
So I inched though the 200ft length of flooded road, riding the clutch to hold the revs at 6000rpm the whole way, I got out and checked radiator hadn’t split, electricals worked and tyres were ok. They were. Pumped my brakes to dry them out and carried on, but at a sensible speed this time. When I got to the other end of the pass the gates were closed. Police vehicle sat next to the Glossop gates thankfully, meaning they could open up for me and let me on my way. They had closed the gates either end and I was the last and only car on the pass at the time. The copper initially asked what time I entered the pass at Sheffield, probably to determine how the S.Yorks police missed me entering. He just looked at me with a quizzically raised eyebrow and said “You must have made bloody good time then didn’t you lad!” … I sheepishly nodded and told them about the burst stream/river and got on my way home.
Could have ended different. Could have ended badly and I was the only car on the road, nobody would have found my stupid soggy corpse until next morning. No mobile signal down there in those days either (don’t know about today). The weather was vile, pitch black night and lashing with rain so visibility wasn’t optimal, but I took the lesson that night; always drive for the road conditions. Don’t floor it everywhere because you had The Prodigy’s new album “Fat Of The Land” blasting out of your stereo …
… always drive for the road conditions.
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Lived in Sheffield, went to college in Manchester
Got to college one day and it started snowing. By the time college was out there was a good foot of snow and it was still coming down. Driving back that day in an old mini was fun I can tell you. About 1983/84.
Took a bit of a trip to go and see the plug hole at Ladybower but man the parking was just crazy ( as in there was nothing and loads of cars on double yellows just abandoned - so gave it a miss 
So drove up Snakes Pass a bit and got these
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That’ll top up the flooded areas just a tad, when it melts. Hard to believe that is only 30 miles from me.
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