In what is becoming a regular event along the M6 National Highways are advising drivers to plan their journeys as another electricity transformer heads north up the M6 this week traveling at 12mph across two lanes.
The huge transformer shipped from Korea into the port at Heysham will complete the final leg of its journey along the M6 to Scotland this weekend over two days.
SP Energy are moving the huge electricity transformer from the port at Heysham to Dumfriesshire. The operation will start at 9am on Saturday (28 September) and take until 3pm on Sunday (29 September) to complete.
This weekend’s transformer weighs 186 tonnes, with the combined weight of the transporter and load weighing 375 tonnes slightly less than the huge transformer that passed by Penrith last Saturday.
Measuring 5.4m in width and 62m in length, it will straddle two lanes of the motorway and be travelling at around 12 mph. Drivers are being asked to exercise extra patience and care when overtaking in lane three of the motorway.
On the first leg of its journey the load will travel north on Saturday up the M6 from junction 34 near in Lancashire to just north of junction 38 at Tebay Services. The load is expected to arrive at the services at 5pm on Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday the load will embark on the final leg of its long journey, leaving Tebay Services at 7am, travelling to junction 42 at Carlisle for a planned break. It will then move into Scotland, joining the A74M to arrive at the Moffat Substation in Dumfriesshire at 3pm.
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