Chauffeur Services in Blackburn

Starting near Preston and finishing at Colne, the M65 has Blackburn sitting in its middle at junctions 4, 5 and 6. For most of the day it is a genuinely useful motorway, though at peak hours the approaches, and that merge onto the M6 at the western end, can add a quarter of an hour with no warning at all. Going south, the decision falls between the M66 through Rawtenstall and the longer M61 line, and both get looked at before we commit rather than after.

South of the centre, on the A666, stands Ewood Park, and a fixture there slows Bolton Road and the Darwen approach for a good hour and a half on either side. Evening kick-offs are the awkward ones. On those nights we collect north of the ground and route around it rather than through. Hard winters leave ice on the A666 climb over Darwen moor and on the roads towards Belmont long after the town has cleared, so the valley route gets used instead.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.