Thanks for your reply sgtbush.
Could you clarify for me that the law is that you must travel at the temporary restricted speed (in this case 50mph) until you see a sign with the national speed limit of 70 mph?
In this case the speed restriction took place within 6.2 miles,
there was no signage upon the exit to say that the temporary speed limit was lifted.
I travel along this particular route fairly often and was able to check the next time I drove along this stretch of motorway.
I mentioned going at the speed of the other drivers only because I was once pulled over for d