Local cows have quietly kept this secret for several generations.

@jetison333

8 жыл бұрын

+PropaneWP how do you loudly keep a secret?

@Regolith86

8 жыл бұрын

+jetison333 "NOPE. NO SECRETS HERE, I CAN TELL YOU! NONE WHATSOEVER. NEVER MIND THAT BIT OF PIPE STICKING OUT OF THE GROUND THERE, IT'S SWAMP GAS."

@PropaneWP

8 жыл бұрын

jetison333 Exclusively mooing into bullhorns? I have no idea :)

@XCILE625

8 жыл бұрын

+PropaneWP Those rabbits on the other hand

@Ampera_

8 жыл бұрын

+Önümüzdeki 4 kapı Loud squeaking of Morse code.

And that is something you might have to pretend you don't know

@PikarinePlays

8 жыл бұрын

elucidate XD

@TomScottGo

8 жыл бұрын

+Pikarine Plays Did you just XD your own comment?

@PikarinePlays

8 жыл бұрын

***** No, I XD'd the fact he was going to make a similar comment. I don't like myself that much, I like you better.

@PikarinePlays

8 жыл бұрын

...... XD

@FajorMuckup

8 жыл бұрын

+Tom Scott see the +eclucidate in front

Be honest Tom, it's not jet fuel flowing through those pipes, it's the internet. The pipes are that wide so there's enough room for the little paper boats containing data to pass each other.

@KiwiPowerNZ

8 жыл бұрын

+CowLunch That's good because half duplex would be incredibly slow for realtime applications.

@raykent3211

8 жыл бұрын

+KiwiPowerNZ But the little paper boats need to be individually powered, whereas a half duplex system can use the current to carry them. I think Tom was threatened with death if he breathed a word about the system that brings the paper boats back, and we're being duped here.

@mikechurvis9995

8 жыл бұрын

What's that connection like, 256kbpy?

@SlenderScrub

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Churvis naa 6pb/s

@tomysshadow

7 жыл бұрын

[sic] The internet is a series of tubes.

I always loved the fact that the Post Office Tower was "secret". There is something so British about declaring the existence a structure that was visible for miles around and was for some time the tallest building in the UK as an official secret.

@qwertyTRiG

Жыл бұрын

And also had a publicly accessible restaurant at the top.

@1bert719

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of delivering to a major US banks storage in Berkshire. I asked the security guard if I had the correct address. His reply? "I'm not allowed to say." 😋

@matthewgaunt4358

Жыл бұрын

​@@qwertyTRiGI dined at that restaurant in '74! I didn't know it was secret...

That section of the pipe doesn't look like its in use. At least I hope it's not in use..

@HughAtkinUK

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Saunders I think this pipe is probably in perfect working order. It looks a little shabby because the outermost layer, probably some sort of insulation material, has been exposed to the elements.

@VicvicW

8 жыл бұрын

I think You've got it! ^^^^

@TomScottGo

8 жыл бұрын

+PvtCrutch I actually had a good look at it, and I've got no idea. It's on a major route for the network, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's still in use. The cladding's in a bit of disrepair, but the inside seemed solid!

@FateBoost

8 жыл бұрын

+KEEP CALM and PLAY SOCCER IN YOUR PAJAMAS : Even Sewage pipes don't accept general waste, don't feed the troll :/

@vincentdeguard4726

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Saunders part of the "decoy" plan...looks like some old waste pipe and nothing of "national importance"

Sorry about the wind noise that's in this one: this was with a wind-muffler on the microphone, and the microphone tucked inside my t-shirt! And if anyone wants a copy of that £250 private map, it's called the "Energy Infrastructure Map of the United Kingdom and Ireland"...

@Maxime_K-G

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't even notice the wind. A tiny bit of background wind fits perfectly with your surroundings!

@ArchOwl

3 жыл бұрын

Quick question: was the entire network privatized, or just the bits connecting civilian areas? You mentioned in passing that the network goes between Air Force bases as well, and I can’t imagine they’d have sold the fuel links between their own bases to a private business.

@therespectedlex9794

3 жыл бұрын

Are you flogging the maps?

@gazmj1400

2 жыл бұрын

I used to work on them pipe lines up in the North West and North Wales, its amazing how many pumping stations there are , under ground long with massive oil tanks ,

@oceanic8424

Жыл бұрын

A wealthy subscriber should buy one, have it scanned and post it all over the net. Especially in countries that don't recognize UK copyright laws, so it cannot be taken down. 😁

A few years ago some locals were prosecuted for digging up the pipe and tapping into the fuel near Salisbury. What people don’t realise is that multiple fuels are sent down the line so aviation fuel can be sent from Fawley to Heathrow and pushed through with diesel that will get diverted to another destination at the point it changes. All very cleverly controlled to avoid contamination. Some fuels are used to clean the pipe after other fuels, then the contaminated fuel is blended into lower grade fuels where purity is less important.

@eopoep

Жыл бұрын

"Locals" rhyming with mypsy

@jamesalexander4203

Жыл бұрын

I think some other locals drilled a hole in the pipe next to the A1 up north… made a dreadful mess.

@eopoep

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesalexander4203 Buncefield will be the world record. Every sunday night the cordless drills came out

@90vanman

Жыл бұрын

We had the same thing in Essex, half a mile from the M25. That pipe was trepanned by some ne'er do wells a couple of years ago, they discovered that petrol engines don't run well on what is effectively paraffin. We also have the Secret Nuclear Bunker nearby, hahaha!

@hoodyk7342

Жыл бұрын

How terrible

2:24 Tom just filmed a cow taking a dump

@guy_th18

6 жыл бұрын

ScorpontGamerZ Official Oh the beauty of life

@Skwertydogs

5 жыл бұрын

Nice catch!

@user-wz3eu6us9k

4 жыл бұрын

Which cow?

@johnvarley4561

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-wz3eu6us9k your mum

@ky5666

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you were watching on a massive screen how did you even spot that. Where you actively looking for it?

I'm willing to bet that there are some random "No digging" signs here and there, just to throw people off-track of where the pipeline actually is.

@AndySmallbone

5 жыл бұрын

Raziel Qwazar no digging signs all over UK due to gas pipes etc.. normally the signs are painted bright orange instead of the colour shown in the video

@Milamberinx

4 жыл бұрын

That's top notch conspiring that is.

@57thorns

4 жыл бұрын

@@AndySmallbone More this I think, there are a lot more pipes that should not be dug into that these, as well as power lines and optic fibre cable. Some of these have different signs of course,

There's a pipe that looks like that near where I live... just pokes above the ground to go over a canal (near Leven). Does that mean it's part of the network, or might it be some pipe for another use? There are no industries near it, only a small airfield.

@magnushmann

8 жыл бұрын

+DIY Perks Dun dun duuun!!!

@magnushmann

8 жыл бұрын

Muahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa!!!

@TomScottGo

8 жыл бұрын

+DIY Perks There are a lot of different pipes! See if you can find one of the markers near it, and search online for the abbreviations on it. That should sort it out!

@jwenting

8 жыл бұрын

+Tom Scott of course if I were the UK government I'd place fake sections all over the place, markers that don't point to real sections, things like that, so as to confuse potential saboteurs as to what are actual strategic targets.

@BloodyHazessr

8 жыл бұрын

+UNITiSGames all joking aside whats stopping some one welding a nozzle and valve on to the pipe and running a hot tap on it. im sure some brits have done this.

Hi Tom. Really enjoy your videos. I've known about this pipeline all my life, as it ran through our garden. When it was renewed in 1972, it was moved to just 3 feet from the house. We occasionally had private, not airforce helicopters come over low checking it. On one occasion, the downdraft scattered garden waste etc., that my dad was trying to put on the bonfire on the other side of the garden, much to the amusement of the pilot!(we weren't allowed a bonfire over the top of it for some strange reason) Back in those days, it's route was marked by stiles, which made it very easy to get over our back fence to get in the fields behind our house. It was tapped by locals during WWII. A childhood neighbour, (who was merely watching!🤣) said that those involved got drenched in fuel, and it was a miracle they didn't go up in flames. The fuel which was presumably high octane aviation spirit, was used to supplement the meagre petrol ration of the time. Apparently the vehicles ran very well for a time, but soon had problems, possibly due to burnt out valve seats if the fuel was unleaded. A spur was taken to the Isle of Wight, to feed PLUTO for the invasion of Europe in 1944.

_I AM FROM RUSSIA, THANK YOU TOM, THIS WILL COME IN HANDY. YOU ARE A TRUE COMRADE AND THE MOTHERLAND THANKS YOU_

@Sir_Bucket

4 жыл бұрын

Ohno

@Techno.Belgium

4 жыл бұрын

Отлучно, комрад

@thescreemregular5168

4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean *we* are from Russia *we* are all from Russia

@apollo1694

3 жыл бұрын

@Rosida Andriyana ok "andryiana"

@bjm6275

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

i have a groundwork business, we started digging about 30m from one of these pipes, a helicopter turned up about 20 mins later, landed in the field and three people got out and checked what we were doing and where... how did they know?

@jakethadley

8 жыл бұрын

+Mission Dan You forgot to wear tin-foil hats :-p Seriously though, could be cables laid along the lagging of the pipe that can pick up the vibration from your equipment - sure I've seen something similar somewhere

@RC-1290

8 жыл бұрын

+Mission Dan Perhaps 1:06 had something to do with that.

@agate_jcg

8 жыл бұрын

+RC-1290 It'd cost way too much to do aerial surveillance of the entire network all the time. I suspect the local police are given a number to call if they see anything suspicious; many pipelines also have dig-detection sensors.

@GamesFromSpace

8 жыл бұрын

+Mission Dan Probably just seismometers accompanying the pipe. Extremely cheap, and they'd easily be able to distinguish between digging within several hundred feet (and further if they wanted to), or a truck driving by.

@stueightfish1216

8 жыл бұрын

+Jason Goodman They do do aerial surveillance on a regular basis (hence the marker posts shown on the vid) and quality testing of the pipe itself. There are repair crews working on the network every day due to the its age. They can also carry different fuels when needed. Avgas and diesel. the wastage when changing from one to the other is surprisingly small. All the works vehicles are not sign written and they get very shitty if they catch you using an excavator near it. As for theft it would be suicidal to try and tap into it. There have been several well documented disasters in Africa attributed to people trying to steal from fuel pipes.

I worked on upgrading the remote telemetry units at each block valve station along a pipeline that comes from Mid-Scotland to Mid-England, with various spurs across the country as well. Commercially, working on these pipelines is a nightmare as there are so many different companies involved, infrastructure owners, product feeders, users, maintenance contractors, land owners, environmental bodies.

Having worked on these pipelines myself, they are no longer secret and alot of them run through small towns and peoples gardens and are surveyed regularly.

Tom: "These pipes are secret" Also Tom: Let me tell everyone about this "secret"

@acmenipponair

Жыл бұрын

the existance is not a secret, just where they are

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

Жыл бұрын

​@@acmenipponair *existence

I find it amazing how Tom Scott is the only person, where the subtitles actually come out correctly.

So basically you're saying England beat America to having a jet fuel related government conspiracy?

@moooooooooo11

7 жыл бұрын

+введите бросок investigate 3/11

@user-by1kw1ix4p

7 жыл бұрын

Taha Ragheed thats probably why the us goverment tried to hide the fact they knew terrorists were planning 9/11

@tahaistheboss98

7 жыл бұрын

введите бросок I hate to break it to you, but i wasn't serious

@fletchrfc2063

7 жыл бұрын

ZorroVulpes Britain, not England.

@elijahwatson8119

6 жыл бұрын

If you'll notice, the Jet fuel didn't melt those steel pipes.

Legend has it Andy Dufresne is still crawling through that to freedom.

Likewise there is a pipeline across the far north of Scotland, complete with parallel railway for maintenance, which appears on no map. I believe it carries crude oil from the North Sea.

@Tairneanach

8 жыл бұрын

It's not the one on the map at 1:19, is it? Runs between Inverness and some military air base to the east.

looks like it needs some repairing, though

@fabianschaible3490

8 жыл бұрын

+niggot yeah cant imagine that being in use still

@purewaterruler

8 жыл бұрын

+SAV AGE well it is implied that it is.

@smokingsamosa

8 жыл бұрын

as long as it is structurally sound, it dosent matter if it's ugly. I did my work experience at one of Europe's largest oil refinery (which is in the UK) it is ugly and rusty, but it supplies over 15% of the UK's fuel.

@diablo0073

8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Mason It's not the rust. The pipe looks ruptured.

@LZachy

8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Mason We went to a steel mill once with my school. It look like the whole building was going to fall at any moment, completely rusted from the inside and out. And the guide had to warn us about the molten iron flowing across the floor so that we did not accidentally step in it.

Kind of makes you proud - imagine the work that went in to laying those pipes, the secrecy that it originally involved. 70 - odd years ago the people of these islands were so dedicated, so driven and so united.

@taowroland8697

Жыл бұрын

Something about a country having a unified culture, ethnicity, and faith being more stable, united, and safe than the modern multicultural abominations.

@BiTurbo228

Жыл бұрын

@@taowroland8697 Something about a country being united against a common enemy more like.

@Alex_-oc4bt

Жыл бұрын

@@taowroland8697 watch out, the pokemons, cartoonist haters and neighbourhood abortionists wont take too kindly to that fact

@madrockon7357

Жыл бұрын

The UK is nothing to be proud of anymore. It's a craphole.

Location (lots of googling): www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Whitminster+Inn/@51.7678681,-2.3370162,124m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487109d9815c924d:0xd35d625718edd189!8m2!3d51.7707348!4d-2.3245182

@auz8d9wij2ks9d

8 жыл бұрын

You rock man

@lauradotwav3123

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ijulesy

7 жыл бұрын

thanks :)

@TheVideoVolcano

7 жыл бұрын

Cameron Bell you're welcome :)

@MrFallout95

7 жыл бұрын

hmm i drove passed this by complete accident once then :P amazing what boredum driving can do

Whilst working for the government (DCLG), I used to receive the business rate payment for these pipelines. LA’s couldn’t really collect the rates because the pipes cross too many LA’s and it was too complex to go down that route

@adamlang7361

Жыл бұрын

What's really quite dodgy about these pipelines is that they were put through under war directives and the land owners didn't receive compensation. Maybe fine during a war but they've been sold off privately now and have been used commercial for a very long time. Quite unfair really.

Is the pipe made from steel beams to stop the pipeline being accidentally melted by the jet fuel inside?

@FajorMuckup

8 жыл бұрын

+Pope-Eye I award you the Medal for comment of the day.

@jwenting

8 жыл бұрын

+Pope-Eye hmm, why would it melt from the jet fuel in it? It's not as if that fuel's particularly hot... It's somewhat corrosive at worst, but not nearly enough to melt the pipe, just means sections need to be replaced every decade or so.

@AndreiSmolnikov

8 жыл бұрын

+CaptainDuckman It's a 9/11 reference

@lulem400

7 жыл бұрын

I officially slow clapped this comment.

@michealdrake3421

7 жыл бұрын

Chemtrails can't steal melted beams

This was on TV the other week, Britain's Hidden Underground.

@Mega_Umbreon

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Bundy Jr That's where Tom gets his stuff!

@FajorMuckup

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Bundy Jr Link Tom copied from another Channel? Link?

@Larry

8 жыл бұрын

lnternet RB TV channel. Plus I didn't say copied, i said it's the same information.

@FajorMuckup

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Bundy Jr On tv.com? Link?

@Ampera_

8 жыл бұрын

Hi Larry. Nice to see you on KZread comments for the 3.534212335324E323332nd time.

@1:52 aviation fuel isn’t flammable. It has to atomised and subject to immense heat.

There's an underground tunnel here in Glasgow which has heavy goods lift access on Cathedral Street. It runs east to the Royal Hospital west to a MOD building at Charing Cross and south to another MOD building which has slanted blast resistant walls on Argyll Street. You can actually go on a tour of the tunnel where they tell visitors that the tunnel is to carry telephone cables. I reckon it's for a potential post apocalyptic event.

Thank you for your subtitles! Great for teaching English listening skills and vocabulary.

I thought you were talking about a pipe where you could crawl from like Manchester to London :(

@joeb-

8 жыл бұрын

***** No, not at all lol. I just had a picture in my head looking at the title

@vincentdeguard4726

8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Ball don't need a pipeline to crawl from London to Manchester...that is what the motorway network is for ;)

@jdraper12

8 жыл бұрын

+Vincent de Guard underrated comment haha

@whatyousaidbud

7 жыл бұрын

Joe Ball I that's called the rail network.

@tlowry6338

6 жыл бұрын

Lmao same I was so disappointed

If anyone was wondering, this is were Tom was standing: 51.767904, -2.336560

@Youchubeswindon

7 жыл бұрын

Bit odd, only 11 miles away from the Esso one (not sure if they get closer, might be something to investigate further). I became interested after a walk through Cotswold Water park, and no one who I spoke to knew what it was for. The CLH pipe is military and the Esso one is for civilian. www.linewatch.co.uk/map-PDF/map-CLH-ps.pdf www.linewatch.co.uk/map-PDF/map-ESSO.pdf In terms of pressures, recentley peeps where arrested for tapping the pipes and stealing oil www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-27108291

@asmallphd9648

7 жыл бұрын

www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Whitminster+Inn/@51.7678681,-2.3370162,124m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487109d9815c924d:0xd35d625718edd189!8m2!3d51.7707348!4d-2.3245182 location

@mwnciboo

7 жыл бұрын

Not true NATO has a huge network that is connected across europe, carrying AVCAT.

@s1lenttoad422

5 жыл бұрын

That is in my village, I know where exactly that is...

@s1lenttoad422

5 жыл бұрын

You’re not far off...

I'm so bloody glad I found this channel!

Just watched with my 4yr old and of everything in the video, she shouts at 2:25 "look mummy, the cow is pooing!" *facepalm*

@Anonymous-376

3 жыл бұрын

You watch Tom Scott vids with your kid?

So the freedom of information act request was denied on security grounds, but you can literally buy the map for cash money? That's kind of the opposite of secure.

This just popped up in my recommended. Fascinating. I did not know that. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed.

Is that your wallet in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

@ethanluu4592

3 жыл бұрын

😳

@andredejonge5255

3 жыл бұрын

Kore ,😀😂👍

@scottsewell4144

3 жыл бұрын

Probably a mic pack

@NthnLikeCodeine

3 жыл бұрын

😳😳😳 Tom packin some heat

@notyouroperatingjohndoe1656

3 жыл бұрын

Oh dear...

So you are saying such an important infrastructure of national security is now privatised? Thanks Dave.

@SuperFunkmachine

8 жыл бұрын

+o0prince Bet they built a new line.

@aslate

8 жыл бұрын

+James jimjimjim of course it's still critical, it keeps fuel moving round the nation to power basically everything. Doesn't mean it can't be handled privately, I imagine this stuff is pretty routine work.

@Brian3989

8 жыл бұрын

+DPRK Travel Videos There is more than one network, operated by different companies and still in use carrying fuel under high pressure!

@Eddiecurrent2000

7 жыл бұрын

Well electricity is, and gas, and telecommunications, and water, and fuel stations... Makes not a jot of difference to the national security.

@integr8er66

4 жыл бұрын

Why not, militaries outsource their food to the enemies now, why not fuel. In Afghanistan the kitchen on base was all run by Hodgie

Very interesting as usual Tom, you should check out the sound mirrors at dungeness, would make for a good informative video

Since watching this a few weeks ago, I see those signs scattered all over on my way to work. Prior to this I never had a clue what they where for. But thanks for clearing it up for me.

When the Buncefield depot went up in flames it severely cut the fuel supplies to Heathrow. Aircraft had to land elsewhere in the UK to uplift enough fuel or fly in with their tanks as full as possible.

@brianartillery

Жыл бұрын

When Buncefield blew up, it made the windows in the gatehouse I was manning, rattle. I got a phonecall from the dock control Tower, asking if someone was letting off fireworks. They weren't. And the point of this? I was in Ipswich, at the time. A loooooong way from Buncefield. That must have been a fearful bang close up.

They had a pipeline under the channel called PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean) to get fuel across to France after the invasion.

@davidtaylor2412

5 жыл бұрын

Roger Barton the pipe line was across the Atlantic not the English Channel hence the name Ocean

There is one of these pipes close to where I live and it wasn't listed on that map along with the oil depot that is less then 3 miles away from my house. Anyone who lives in the Midlands ever goes to Kingsbury water park, follow the trail for the old brick bridge going into Kingsbury and you'll find one of these pipes going along side the bridge.

Our property deeds show that one of the fuel pipelines passes under our front garden. We are compelled to allow free access for any maintenance. A few years ago a building contractor accidentally ruptured part of the pipeline nearby. The cleanup operation took several months.

@MsBNoodle

Жыл бұрын

😮

From a feild somwear in Glocestershire. Thank you ! you have solved a long time mystery of what those little yelow markers are !!

So, was the janky, rusted, falling apart jacketing just camouflage? ;) or has the UK started training their infrastructure maintenance crews in the US? :P or (more seriously this time) is that a disused section of the network?

@Ryubosj

8 жыл бұрын

+AutodidacticPhd most likely the current owners, as Tom said it was sold off, are just typical lazy buggers

@AutodidacticPhd

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I figure it is something like that... was mostly just teasing, thus the winking smileies and such.

@jakethadley

8 жыл бұрын

+AutodidacticPhd Pretty standard looking pipe in an industrial setting tbh..! As long as the underlying pipe is okay there's no issue, it's jsut there to hold the thermal lagging in place. Of course, I am sure that there is an "ongoing commitment to maintenance, upgrade and replacement as deemed appropriate" (or something else similarly corporate..!) in place

@AutodidacticPhd

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake Hadley Hehe, I agree, it's quite typical of industry... ever heard of West, Texas? Famous not for one chemical plant explosion, but multiple. Very typical indeed ;)

@devicemodder

8 жыл бұрын

+AutodidacticPhd > ever heard of West, Texas? Famous not for one chemical plant explosion, but multiple. Ever heard of china? there was one a few weeks ago.

There's a long section of this pipe that sits above ground near where I live. Never knew what it was for. Thanks for the vid

@davem5308

4 жыл бұрын

In 2020, the better research, the better story, would be, how it was constructed on the sly, perhaps "at night". Perhaps again mates, similar tactics might be in play for 5g roll out, and other nefarious "goings on"? Cheers from a yank in bloody NH, bloody damn USA. Bolluks! I like using British slang! Living in the tyranny across the pond! Scamdemic!

Hi Tom i worked at Blackmoor Terminal at Oxspring near penistone until it closed in 1998 and that was on the pipeline network , fuel ( aviation , petrol and diesel ) still goes through the pipeline at Blackmoor but bypasses the storage tanks on it's way to Bramhall Manchester .

We have a similar system in Canada that sends petroleum products from Montreal to Toronto. It is used to delivers various petroleum products in batches by putting the oil between two pigs.

With the frequent water shortages in parts of Britain, I'm surprised they don't run PVC pipes on the inside and create a national water grid. It would not be an inexpensive undertaking, but the benefits would be enormous.

@yesamster

Жыл бұрын

There is infrastructure already to do this if essential. I work in the water industry and different companies have certain trunk main pipes which join onto other water networks. They are rarely used, but the option is usually there in a complete emergency.

Oh, I just saw my hometown on the map! And if my hunch is correct, I may have climbed on this pipe a few times as a child.

@alunjones3860

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, if I'd lived nearby, I certainly would have walked along that pipe to cross that river, when I was a child.

Around the areas of Stansted these pipes and there signs are very common, we often get aircraft, helicopters and sometimes military flit overs to check up on them!!

Good job. High quality work!

Those pipes would be perfect for running fibre optic cables inside and getting decent internet to the countryside

@TheChipmunk2008

8 жыл бұрын

+rallfo99 And they'd be well protected from Digging!

@benhainesuk

8 жыл бұрын

B4RN use fibre that's available along the gas pipeline for backhaul. Dark fibre from Zayo (ex Geo networks) to anybody who'll pay ;)

@TheChipmunk2008

8 жыл бұрын

+Ben Haines Never knew that, awesome! I knew there was fibre on the national grid (you can see it 'wrapped' round the earth/static lines at the very top of pylons) but I am not sure if they use that in house for comms, or rent it out? (or a mix)

@hendrikdependrik1891

7 жыл бұрын

It's also great the cable is rinsed clean constantly.

@Eddiecurrent2000

7 жыл бұрын

Grid used to rent out some of the dark fibre to anyone who wanted it, nowadays it's mostly in house stuff and the commercial stuff has been moved to other providers.

It’s not just government pipelines, there’s a whole network run by Mainline Pipelines (which is essentially Esso) between Haverfordwest and Birmingham, Fawley (Southampton) and Birmingham, fawley and London, Birmingham and East Midlands, Birmingham and Manchester and a few other lesser places (like Plymouth Cattedown and St Mawgan to Falmouth) but largely its the airports. The helicopter is contracted from Stirling Air based at Silverstone race track. MLP pipelines are openly available data (through an enterprise called Linewatch) but the government ones are managed privately and you have to tell them where you’re working and they’ll tell you if you shouldn’t! They work at up to 100 bar (1600psi) so don’t tap into them or you’ll be brown bread (like many Nigerians before you) and they pump all sorts of fuel, one after the other, and the few hundreds of litres where they mix just go back to the refinery east of Birmingham (Kingsbury) to get turned back into car-food! Interesting stuff and I greatly enjoyed working for (and flying with) them!

We have the exact same thing in the Netherlands, and it also spans the entire country and was build and still owned by the government. It's officially maintained and exploited by the Dutch Royal Airforce, but available for use by the privatised airports such as Schiphol and Rotterdam-The Hague airport.

Only found your channel recently,very informative thank you.

Naming your places irrecognizable to their spoken names helps in keeping the secret. "There is a pipeline in (spoken) Gloster?" Who would guess that this place is written Gloucestershire? ^^

So it's secret til you spend 250?

@Dong_Harvey

8 жыл бұрын

+ethan schreiber membership in the US Republican party is a secret until you spend about that much (in dollars)

@9000fail

8 жыл бұрын

Dong Harvey Voting is free...Not sure what your comment is.

@Dong_Harvey

8 жыл бұрын

ethan schreiber joining the Republican party is a thing which requires an 'active' membership, the parties are private organizations and don't even have to publish their finances. they both cost money to join, its just always been notable that the Republicans where happy to let in known persons who behave counter to the party's agenda as long as they pay $250/

@9000fail

8 жыл бұрын

Dong Harvey Interesting, can you link me somewhere i can read more? I can't seem to find anything.

@Dong_Harvey

8 жыл бұрын

ethan schreiber sry but no, it was an old tv news show covering porn stars (around 2002), i have forgotten its name, but they went on to document further occurrences of unsavory members of party. not that the Democrats don't do the same thing, they just cost less..

An interesting video. Thanks Tom.

Love your videos. Fascinating.

With points of the pipe above ground at regular intervals it wouldn't be hard to connect the dots on a map.

Not a secret anymore

@JustinKoenigSilica

8 жыл бұрын

+Slothyn it still is technically a secret because exact locations are NOT known.

@guy_th18

6 жыл бұрын

Fartmuffin Not this part

I remember my grandad telling about the pipe line, also the little triangle in high viz colours on top of the posts are for aircraft so they can spot them from the air.

I have flown a survey aircraft along various parts of this network. The reason for the survey was to confirm no unauthorised building works had taken place and that no there was no unexplained ground staining. Nowadays there is no AvGas in the pipes. Instead it has been replaced by diesel, petrol, jet fuel and other refined petroleum products.

Really interesting - I've seen one just like that and wondered what it was but presumed it to be water. Knowing something of that location's wartime history, it makes sense that it "could" have been a fuel line (probably long since obsolete in the case of the one I'm thinking of).

If I know England correctly they have probably slammed up a bunch of "danger dont dig here" signs for shits and giggles and to confuse matters.

@raykent3211

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, that would be needed, otherwise the locations of the don't-dig-here signs are a giveaway for a spy, they tell them exactly where the pipe is routed.

@foamer443

4 жыл бұрын

@@raykent3211 And on the other hand keep the true location secret, so when Bob the Builder fires up the excavator and puts the bucket right through the pipe and levels some small town, that's the smart choice.....Right?

@nopenope6050

4 жыл бұрын

Yeh there's no fuel in those pipes anymore...let us think what we want and keep us on our toes, job done your majesty

@user-ky6vw5up9m

3 жыл бұрын

In England The routes are marked conspicuously because they are checked by helicopter and drones.

@Locost59

3 жыл бұрын

Or just put in the wrong place by administrative cockup. They closed a railway line near here by accident (King's Lynn to Hunstanton)! Same as another was closed, bridges dynamited only to need reopening a couple of years later for a gas terminal (Bacton, Norfolk) that had been planned years before the closure. But British Rail was to our railways what British Leyland was to our car industry...

I live close to the Fawley refinery to Heathrow pipeline. Markers all over the place. Amazing to think how and when they dug to put it in place. So much woodland on top of it now.

Tom, I've watched a lot of your videos now, and I love them all. All I want is a full TV series. An hour on each thing. Do have to write to Santa? Do I have to petition parliament? Please, make it happen!

Has anyone made a zoomable map of the known pipelines? Would be cool to visit one of the sites like Tom did one day

To be honest: that pipe (if still operational) looks like an environmental, health and safety hazard waiting to happen all at once.

@acmefixer1

6 жыл бұрын

frustbox The pipes underground are covered by an asphalt coating to prevent corrosion. This may be covered by a thin sheet of tin to prevent the asphalt from being damaged. I think that's what you saw in the video. It may get dented without damage to what's inside.

@vinceking7878

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, some jippo comes with an sds drill...

@thetessellater9163

3 жыл бұрын

I knew a chap who worked as a welder on pipelines in Northumberland. They were made of 22mm thick medium carbon steel, and the joint between two pipes is V-shaped, and the welders go round and round repeatedly to fill up the V.

@Ponyreiter

Жыл бұрын

@@acmefixer1 Such a pipeline needs regular maintenance. These measures can only slow down the deterioration, but not stop it.

so its 2019 now ive done some investigations in to this pipeline and all ive found out is that some time in 2015 the GPSS was acquired by Spanish oil network operator Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos. CLH for £82m. The MoD also signed a contract with CLH for the military to be continued to be supplied with fuel via the GPSS. It was stated that over the next ten years the MoD would pay £237 million for the use of the system. MoD had previously paid nothing for the use of the GPSS and also gained from the surplus of income over expenditure that OPA used to generate from running the GPSS. The sale did not include the six coastal Oil Fuel Depots owned by the MoD, which continued to be operated and maintained by the residual OPA. Following its acquisition by CLH, the GPSS was subsequently renamed the CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS). Since CLH have taken over the ownership of the GPSS a number of the pipelines that make up the system have been closed down. the main reason for the size of the pipes is that one there high pressure and two they are armor plated

Good story. Thank you for a great presentation. You didn’t use hype. You presented information clearly.

Did you buy the map?

Back in the day, drill a hole install a valve, free fuel.

When there is a slight dusting of snow, pipes can bee seen because the snow melts above them. And the water pipe from Wales to Birmingham can also be seen as it emerges above ground in a few places.

I know of one twin pipeline which skirts the Western edge of Milton Keynes, running along the back of HMP Woodhill - MK's prison - and a long section of it was dug out and encased in thick concrete. It is clearly marked with those same orange signs, but just nailed to wooden posts.

Years ago the US military put in communications cabling all over the upper midwest to tie their ICBM missile silos into the national control systems then decided to 'lose the maps' so no one could figure out where they are to mess with them. Well, it seems every earth moving contractor and farmer and general guy who just needed a high spot on their property taken off did a really good job of helping them "make a new map the hard way" by digging up those 'lost lines' for them! Most every person who ever worked for a earth moving contractor or was a farmer in the last 50 years has a story about them or someone they know digging up a mystery cable out in the middle of nowhere and having the US military show up in force 10 - 20 minutes later! :D

title: secret underground pipeline tom: *shows publicly available pipeline that sits above the grass*

@stuartronald9785

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but could be any pipe or sewer. Hiding in plain sight.

Just for the record, Aviation fuel isn't highly flammable. it's a bit like Diesel. Only flammable under high pressure or high heat.... I'm not an expert, but it was on Myth Busters and the film Die Hard 2

Good bit of info that, thanks Tom.

Now I know what that pipe over the river in my town is.. I'm near RAF Leuchars so it makes sense.

@Maxime_K-G

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to your comment I know why there are probably so many markers in my area. I also live near a military airbase, Beauvechain.

looks old and broken needs maintenance

Its nice alan patridge has found an interest

There is one pipeline that runs from Liverpool docks to Haydock that supplied RAF Burtonwood and there’s one that runs from Aberdeen to Stanlow refinery near Ellsmere Port.

@benlee2765

5 жыл бұрын

There is an exposed pipe crossing the brook at castle hill, its about 4x the diameter as the one shown. I thought is was a sewer pipe. Looks similar.

@benlee2765

5 жыл бұрын

There is a pipe that looks similar running across the brook at castle hill/ willow park but about 4x the diameter. I thought it was a sewer pipe.

"It's not secret and it's not underground!"

If you can just pay a few hundred bucks, what's the secret?

Where I live, is right beside Royal Portbury docks, where the fuel comes in, then it gets pumped to these massive underground tanks only a half mile from my house, at Redcliffe bay. Always wondered where they went and what they were for. Assumed they were for Filton airport during the war, didn't know they were part of this massive network

I have walked past that spot several times. Thanks for the context

I would post a "You can't buy that much pipeline without someone getting curious" jab at Quantum of Solace, but I'm afraid jokes about that film would be as poor as the film itself...

@YingwuUsagiri

8 жыл бұрын

+Robert Faber Oh damn nice one.

Interesting, I remember when I was younger that once I came across a large exposed pipe similar to that one. I just checked on the map and there's no reference to it in the area I remember it being. Might have to go out there one day and see if I imagined it 😂

I drive past the large pumping station at Thetford quite regularly. There is a mini pumping station about a mile from my house feeding Honington.

The United Kingdom Oil Pipeline was only secret during WW2 as far as I know. It was used to enable ships from the US to dock at Liverpool and send fuel to the South and South East without endangering shipping. Nowadays it's been extended and it's used to send various fuels/oils to airports and oil terminals all over England.

I guess the above ground pipline in the video isn't used anymore, right? Looks pretty beaten up.

@jaredliv

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Anyone can confirm this?

A secret that can be purchased for £250? Is it really a secret then?

@eljanrimsa5843

4 жыл бұрын

perhaps you need to promise never to tell anyone

@alunjones3860

4 жыл бұрын

£250 is a small amount of money for something so important. I would hope they only sell it to people/organisations who have a valid reason to need it and perform background checks on them.

The pipeline and fuel dump outside arthingworth are still very much in use 80 years after they were installed, most likely to supply Harrington airfield amongst others

I did not know that. Well I guess you learn something new every day.

"But this actually is a secret" Well, not so secret anymore, is it then, Tom?

@thetessellater9163

3 жыл бұрын

It is secret in that the government do not verify any details ever.

"High pressure aviation fuel", well that rusty something does not look very trustworthy.

I was told the pipes are used to deliver petrol as well and that's why fuel is cheaper around Heathrow airport.

Great Scott!!