Driving through the roadworks between Jct 17 -15 where they are replacing steel barriers with concrete,I noticed that along the top,they’ve fitted ridged purple plastic tubing 
…it looks like the stuff normally used for underground drainage .
Any ideas ■■
Thanks for that,I sort of guessed it might be something along those lines (honest 
)…but I can’t recall seeing it in use anywhere else.
I’ve seen it quite a few times laid out down behind the barrier at the hard shoulder, usually during roadworks but if it’s going to be something more permanent then I guess being there will do a better job of stopping people tampering with it, vandalism etc.
Just a guess though, I’ve never seen it down the central res before either.
Is that what they run the cables through for the Average Speed Cameras etc that ‘don’t work’? 
Kaistar:
I’ve seen it quite a few times laid out down behind the barrier at the hard shoulder, usually during roadworks but if it’s going to be something more permanent then I guess being there will do a better job of stopping people tampering with it, vandalism etc.Just a guess though, I’ve never seen it down the central res before either.
Nearly all the new Smart motorways that are being done have them down the central res. It’s come from Naylors all that pipe, we’ve been delivering it into the site compound of junc 29a. It comes as coils and they lay it out they do it in electric ducting, land drain solid and perforated
Actrosman:
Is that what they run the cables through for the Average Speed Cameras etc that ‘don’t work’?
Judging by how many tear arse through that section in the 3rd lane you could be right 
They are putting it down central reservation to try and stop cable theft
It’s just temporary cable duct, they take it down when they have done.
Baggie:
but I can’t recall seeing it in use anywhere else.
Me and my big mouth,ran from Brum to Stockport this morning,(don’t often go oop north ),everywhere I looked…Purple Tubing
Purple ducting is for the cabling for signs and gantry signals on motorways in England. In Scotland purple is used for street lighting cables, which are in orange in England.
If it’s lying on the ground or tied to the top of barriers it will be temporary cables until the permanent ducts and cables are installed - normally you won’t see it since it’s buried in the ground.
Other colours are used to denote other underground utilities such as blue for water, yellow for gas, black for electric.
Baggie:
Baggie:
but I can’t recall seeing it in use anywhere else.Me and my big mouth,ran from Brum to Stockport this morning,(don’t often go oop north ),everywhere I looked…Purple Tubing
And you still haven’t been oop North, you may have headed north, but Stockport is in the Midlands surely.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Actrosman:
Is that what they run the cables through for the Average Speed Cameras etc that ‘don’t work’?Judging by how many tear arse through that section in the 3rd lane you could be right
I’ll try that in the contra flow bit in the M4 R/W’s 13-14…3rd lane, 6’ 6" and as it’s normally an empty lane (knobbers are scared to venture out there in case it’s cul-de-sac or summat!) I’ll rack it up to 54…might make progress then!
BillyHunt:
Baggie:
Baggie:
but I can’t recall seeing it in use anywhere else.Me and my big mouth,ran from Brum to Stockport this morning,(don’t often go oop north ),everywhere I looked…Purple Tubing
And you still haven’t been oop North, you may have headed north, but Stockport is in the Midlands surely.
If you want to consider Lancashire as the Midlands then yes it is.
Without trying to be pedantic, as if I would, and taking away the made up county names, if you look at a map of England then Stockport is indeed in the middle of the country & not the North. As I said he may have headed north but he’s not oop North.
People from Birmingham should know better, it’s not as if they’re ■■■■ a nees after all.
The border for The North is in Cornwall, by Hayle. The sign is adjacent to the A30…
nodding donkey:
The border for The North is in Cornwall, by Hayle. The sign is adjacent to the A30…
Your obviously French & therefore your views are irrelevant.
I watched that tv series starring Freddie Flintoff where he toured the UK flogging fish and chips to punters from his mobile chippy, in one episode he hiked across the moors until he reached the geographical centre of the UK, it was slightly to the East of Preston iirc. So they’re all Midlanders from there across to Hull.
the maoster:
I watched that tv series starring Freddie Flintoff where he toured the UK flogging fish and chips to punters from his mobile chippy, in one episode he hiked across the moors until he reached the geographical centre of the UK, it was slightly to the East of Preston iirc. So they’re all Midlanders from there across to Hull.
I rest my case.
Just been on Google and the centre of England is actually Fenny Drayton in Leicestershire. It used to be in Coventry.