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***ESC Tunnel Run 2011 (22/10/11)***

 
Old Sep 20, 2011 | 09:48 AM
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Please add your names here and I will update the main list every so often.

Convoy will leave Star City at 15:00hrs - B7 5SA

we will stop at the below services for no more than 30mins each:

M6 Corley - CV7 8NR (J4-3)

M1 Watford Gap - NN6 7UZ (J17-16)

(skip Northampton services)

M1 Newport Pagnell - MK16 8DS (J15-14)

M1 Toddington - LU5 6HR (J12-11)

M25 South Mimms - EN6 3QQ (J23)

M25 Thurrock - RM16 3BG (J30)

Make sure you are fuelled up and have your sarnies ready

We aim to be back in Birmingham for about 2am.


THE ROUTE :

• Meet at Thurrock Services Main Car Park @ 8.00 p.m. (Junction 30 - M25).

• Leave services @ 9.00 p.m. and join M25 towards Dartford Crossing.

• Exit Lakeside Services – at the roundabout take the 3rd exit sign posted M25

• At the roundabout take the 1st exit onto the M25

• Go over the Dartford Bridge and enter the toll booths – remember to have your £1.50 ready!

• Through tolls and continue M25 to junction 2 (A2 Junction)

• After the tolls the road goes into 4 lanes – keep in the first two lanes, following the signs for A2 London / Canterbury, Junction 2

• Ignore the turning for Dartford A225 (Junction 1b )

• Keep in the inner 2 lanes – follow A2 LONDON, keeping in the right hand lane when appropriate

• Keep in the right hand lane as you approach the roundabout

• At the traffic lights on the roundabout, keep in the right hand lane, but when you drive round the roundabout keep to the left, following signs for BEXLEYHEATH

• Go thru the 2nd set of lights then into the left hand lane through the 3rd set of lights taking the exit A2 LONDON

• Now a 50mph speed limit – please do not exceed the speed limit as the A2 is full of speed cameras!

• After 8.6miles of the journey, get into the outer 2 lanes

Speed Camera after 9.2miles

Another Speed Camera after 10.5miles

• Make sure you keep to the middle and outside lane, as the inside lane filters off the local traffic for most of the journey

Speed Camera at 11.9miles (behind the green sign)

Speed Camera at 12.4miles (behind green sign)


• (Speed limit is still 50mph)

Speed Camera 13.2miles, just after the 2nd bridge

Speed Camera at 14.9miles (on the central reservation)

• At roundabout, follow road round to the right and go through the lights; road then goes into 2 lanes

• Follow the signs for Blackwall Tunnel

• Keep on the road and follow signs for DOCKLANDS/BLACKWALL TUNNEL – keep on the road, do not turn off yet

Speed camera at 16.4miles

• Keep following the signs for Docklands / Blackwall Tunnel

• Stay in the 3 outside lanes

• Speed limit changes to 30mph on the bridge - move into the inside lane

BLACKWALL TUNNEL – make sure you keep in the inside lane as you will be turning left immediately you exit the tunnel. If you ignore this instruction then you are on your own! Set your sat nav to find the Mcdonald's Restaurant
2 Trafalgar Way
Aspen Way
Billingsgate,
London,
E14 5SP

• We then take the first exit at the end of the tunnel. Keep to the inside 2 lanes on this road.


• Turn left at the lights into Cotton Street signposted Excel

• At roundabout, take the right hand lane through the lights, then take the exit just after McDonalds (Aspen Way)

• Get into right hand lane – 40mph speed limit

• Follow signs for Tower Bridge / Wapping – 30mph speed limit

• LIMEHOUSE LINK - this tunnel has speed cameras high up on the wall –30mph speed limit

• Take right hand lane as you immediately come out of the tunnel – turn onto Butcher’s Row

• Keep in right hand lane (The White Swan should be on your right hand side) – turn right onto Commercial Road and stay in the right hand lane after turning

• Keep in right hand lane as you go under the bridge

• At the lights take the right hand turn to go to the Rotherhithe Tunnel – keep in the right hand lane as it goes into a narrow width restriction road

20mph speed limit in the Rotherhithe Tunnel – speed camera as you exit the tunnel

• At the roundabout, go into the right hand lane, going all the way round the roundabout and back into the Rotherhithe tunnel – remember 20mph speed limit!

Camera just before you enter the tunnel

• As you exit the tunnel, go through the 1st set of lights, keeping in the left hand lane. Basically head back on yourself.

• 2nd traffic lights, keep in the left lane, turning left onto Commercial Road

• Stay in left hand lane and at the traffic lights turn left into Butchers Row

• At traffic lights turn left (onto The Highway) back into the Limehouse Link

30mph in tunnel – cameras in the tunnel


• In tunnel, follow signs for Tilbury / Royal Docks (Basically stay on the main carriageway) •
Speed Camera on exit of Limehouse Link (opposite Billingsgate)

McDONALDS REGROUP


• Now 40mph - once out of the tunnel get into the left hand lane following the signpost Isle of Dogs / Canary Wharf / A102

• Take the slip road and get into the right hand lane on the slip road

• At roundabout go all the way round, exiting at McDonalds to re-group

• Upon leaving McDonalds at the big roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Apsen Way, signposted Tilbury / Excel

• Keep in the RIGHT hand lane and continue through the underpass. (signposted A13)


• Rejoin the A13. Warning, plenty of speed Cameras along this stretch.

• At the Lodge Avenue Flyover, keep in the two outside lanes

Camera after the flyover

• Keep on A13, signposted Tilbury / Dartford Crossing

• Take the slip road signposted Dartford Crossing

• At the roundabout take the 3rd exit, keeping in the right hand lane as you take the slip road

• Go through the DARTFORD TUNNEL - NO TOLL AFTER 10PM

• Go through the tolls and head towards A2 – keep in the left hand lane for A225 Dartford (junction 1b)

• Take the slip road of Dartford A225, keeping in the right hand lane on the slip road

• At the roundabout take the 4th exit back onto the M25

• Go back through the tolls and into the DARTFORD TUNNEL

• Then head back to Lakeside Services



Tunnel Run 2011!!!!


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Old Sep 20, 2011 | 10:20 AM
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Old Sep 20, 2011 | 07:46 PM
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is this the essex tunnel run h
Old Sep 20, 2011 | 08:22 PM
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Yes bud
Old Sep 20, 2011 | 08:50 PM
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Old Sep 20, 2011 | 08:50 PM
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OMG. Hairs (i aint got any) standing up on my neck. This is Christmas come early
Old Sep 21, 2011 | 07:35 AM
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is this the best one is it just wmi or scoobynet
Old Sep 21, 2011 | 10:34 AM
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the bham and esc tunnel runs rock. esc, you can expect about 150-200 scoobs there, bang in the middle of london. I think its the best day of the year coz we'll be out pretty much all day, nice and relaxing til we get to london, then its mayhem and flat-four rumbling galore. You'll not regret it!
Old Sep 21, 2011 | 02:18 PM
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Old Sep 22, 2011 | 12:39 AM
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Tunnels is what scoobies are made for.
Old Sep 23, 2011 | 07:34 AM
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So this is on a monday then h?
Old Sep 23, 2011 | 09:54 AM
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no mate the 22nd Oct is a saturday.........
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 07:48 AM
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Come on peeps, get your names down - this is a once a year amazing drive. Its a full day out, stopping plenty of times along the way ending with some amazing sights, noise and atmosphere.

I promise you, you will only regret not going once you see the pics and vids after the event!
Old Sep 30, 2011 | 07:55 AM
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bttt
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This better be good Carl! if its crap Ill hold you totally responsible

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You won't be disappointed mate

I'm beyond gutted I can't make it this year, but my selfish Sister has decided to get married this day lol but anyway, it would have been my third year in a row attending and it's just a great day, evening, and early morning out! I always treated it like a bit of an adventure lmao.

Have fun this year guys, give em some revs in the tunnels (and a few peeps of the horn in the Limhouse Link tunnel ) for me will you

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have a great day Tom

hope to see you soon
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Bttt, not long now folks
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Every time a tunnel run comes up my bloody car is off the road!!!

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Hello guys,
Can you explain what is this event in short and whether I can attend it if someone is good enough to let me ride with him (in exchange for something - gas/food/what you like)?
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its almost a 24hour day out, starting early afternoon, getting home around 4am or 5am next day. Drive to london to meet up with various other clubs. Last year I think there were 157 scoobs in attendance.

I dont know if we're ending up at billingsgate market again like last year, but along the way, several tunnels (full of scoobs, you can imagine the noise!) great photo shoot opportunity. and a great laugh on the way home.

Most of us will be connected via CB Radio, helps (me) not get lost! lol

Its Loud. Its Proud. Its the ESC Tunnel Run!
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Originally Posted by BrainStormeR
Hello guys,
Can you explain what is this event in short and whether I can attend it if someone is good enough to let me ride with him (in exchange for something - gas/food/what you like)?

the "what you like" - Does that include 21 year old blonde 5luts ? lol

Id offer on this one too bud, but i'll be having the dogs with me in the car, plus coz the get back is early hours, i'm a good hour away from birmingham . Maybe someone a bit nearer to you might oblige.
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Well mate, I have a deficit of those 21 yo blondies... you know... hehe

I see that it would be a more time/money consuming event so I would probably skip this one and wait until the meet-up at 30/10/11.
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160 miles there, 160 miles back. Plus fun in the tunnels of say 50 max?

370miles round trip eh? Guess I need to bring some meth
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Originally Posted by BrainStormeR
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Well mate, I have a deficit of those 21 yo blondies... you know... hehe

I see that it would be a more time/money consuming event so I would probably skip this one and wait until the meet-up at 30/10/11.

no probs, as i put on the other thread, you're more than welcome to join me while we do the meet and i'll drop you back off at star city. you can then go back to bulgaria saying how nice WMI were
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