Layby speed limits

[Somewhatfoolish]

What is the speed limit in a layby, if there is one at all? If there is a physical barrier between the layby and the carriageway would it affect it?

I was idly musing on an interesting hypothetical manouever on a hypothetical road (really!) and this would be a relevant consideration.

[Somewhatfoolish]

woodyTVR said:

I was once a passenger in a car and the driver was an ex-police class 1 driver. We were heading from Sudbury (Ashbourne) towards Ashbourne town on the A515. We were in a queue of 5 cars behind a tractor and trailer.

The lead car (we were at the back) kept jutting out to make a pass but was too close to see properly and the guy behind him was doing the same. As we approached a layby on our offside our driver said, I'm going to pull in here for 5 minutes as these two are going to cause an accident.

As we pulled in you could see all the way up the road and braaap, off we went and passed the lot - tidy little move really but wasn't the original intension.

This was pretty much exactly the manoeuvre I was musing, albeit with approaching a left hand bend - interesting to see it's been done.