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Re: Going up north
« Reply #15 on: 21 October 2010, 09:14:17 »
Juctions 17 to 20 are always busy  ::)
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #16 on: 21 October 2010, 09:15:18 »
ohhh, and watch out for the new variable speedlimits too, think they are only southbound currently though  :-/
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #17 on: 21 October 2010, 09:24:16 »
went up the other weekend. from burton via stoke m6. took 3 & half hours  :o. m6 was terrible.
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #18 on: 21 October 2010, 09:57:45 »
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Well we are off up north in the morning to Blackpool and was wandering if there are any major problems that occure on a daily basis on the M6 :-?


You'll be depressed. It's grim up north.
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #19 on: 21 October 2010, 10:06:38 »
Just be careful drinking the beer, one pint and you'll be on your back. Its not like the shandy you southerners drink down there  ;D
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #20 on: 21 October 2010, 10:13:14 »
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Just be careful drinking the beer, one pint and you'll be on your back. Its not like the shandy you southerners drink down there  ;D

Where does the north of england start from anyway? Using the M6 i would say from junction 15 leaving stoke?
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #21 on: 21 October 2010, 10:52:36 »
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Just be careful drinking the beer, one pint and you'll be on your back. Its not like the shandy you southerners drink down there  ;D

Where does the north of england start from anyway? Using the M6 i would say from junction 15 leaving stoke?
 :)

Watford gap, isn't it?  ;D

Actually, strike that. How about just Watford?

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Re: Going up north
« Reply #22 on: 21 October 2010, 13:36:58 »
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Was planning to use the toll road and maybe come onto the M6 at Cov as I know where aI can get a cheap cup of coffee for nowt ( families  do have ther uses sometimes  ;) ;D )
As opposed to an expensive cup of coffee for nowt? ;D
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #23 on: 21 October 2010, 13:47:07 »
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i like the m6 toll rd. just fly through  :y

Not the free-for-all it once was. I've routinely seen people pulled in by undercover cars getting tickets on there.


i havent used it for about 4 years and it was empty at 7am on the sunday i went on it, i was flat out foot to the floor. i was told the day it opened they got 20 people in an hr for doing over 100mph.
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #24 on: 21 October 2010, 13:57:00 »
I wonder how much they would make if they put variable speed limits on it, ranging from all the usual speeds, to derestricted at quiet times  :-/
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #25 on: 21 October 2010, 14:01:41 »
Unless you hit it at rush hour the toll road is a waste of a fiver IMHO. Now, before it was so heavily policed I might have held a different view. ::)

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Re: Going up north
« Reply #26 on: 21 October 2010, 15:50:48 »
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such a shame the toll road is policed  :'(

and a rather good job it hasnt been when ive been, ahem, *cough* 'testing' *cough*

You know, I use the toll road quite a bit as it's a useful jog round Brum back to my gaff and I have never seen one Traffic Officer, despite always driving at 68.5mph.  Ahem.  It's probably a time thing and I just seem to miss them.  ;)

Now when I used to live in your neck of the woods Jimbob myself and a few friends had many a happy evening 'testing' on the roads round there.  Mind you, that was back in the 80's when the local copper in Connah's Quay had a Mini 1000, complete with big round tit on the roof.
Happy days!  ;D
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #27 on: 21 October 2010, 16:10:54 »
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Just be careful drinking the beer, one pint and you'll be on your back. Its not like the shandy you southerners drink down there  ;D

Where does the north of england start from anyway? Using the M6 i would say from junction 15 leaving stoke?
 :)

once past watford the queens english goes downhill. the lingo starts getting too much to understand.
me and the mates were discussing this over a double diamond shandy) in the pub last week  ;D ;D

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Re: Going up north
« Reply #28 on: 21 October 2010, 16:18:21 »
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Just be careful drinking the beer, one pint and you'll be on your back. Its not like the shandy you southerners drink down there  ;D

Where does the north of england start from anyway? Using the M6 i would say from junction 15 leaving stoke?
 :)

once past watford the queens english goes downhill. the lingo starts getting too much to understand.
me and the mates were discussing this over a double diamond shandy) in the pub last week  ;D ;D

Surely coming from the smoke you mean a Mahatma Ghandi ;D
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Re: Going up north
« Reply #29 on: 21 October 2010, 16:23:55 »
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Just be careful drinking the beer, one pint and you'll be on your back. Its not like the shandy you southerners drink down there  ;D

Where does the north of england start from anyway? Using the M6 i would say from junction 15 leaving stoke?
 :)

once past watford the queens english goes downhill. the lingo starts getting too much to understand.
me and the mates were discussing this over a double diamond shandy) in the pub last week  ;D ;D

Surely coming from the smoke you mean a Mahatma Ghandi ;D


i cant handle anything stronger than a DD. dare'nt drink stella, i'll turn into a sarf london chav  ;D ;D
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