When wide isn't wide enough...

Go large for this one... You can take the engineer out of the substation, but perhaps you can never take the substation out of the engineer... So when I got a warning as a local councillor of a large slow load passing through the area, and that it was a new supergrid transformer for my old workplace, my blip-alarm went ping.

But no matter the 11mm lens, I couldn't get a clear shot of the entire thing. The 235 tonne load was 55 metres long, lorry to lorry. The largest lorry is a the front of course, but in this picture the rear lorry is about to tow the whole thing backwards, anticlockwise around the roundabout at M5J13, from the northern off-ramp, back over to the southern on-ramp. This being because a) the 24-axle 60 wheel vehicle wouldn't go around the roundabout, and b) because having gone up the motorway from Avonmouth it had to go back down to the Charfield exit because junction 14 doesn't have a roundabout at all and the turn would be too tight.  About 18 of the 24 axles are steerable, the trailer axles are controlled by a clever fellow riding beside the load. See extra.

All a bit Thunderbirds, really, but it gave me a chance of an early morning blast on Morrigan, nipping between viewpoints at Avonmouth, Stroud and Tortworth. I put the extra in not only to show the clever fellow, but to show the size of the rear lorry - which looks tiny in comparison with the front one.