I suspect the drop wire which is underground put in in the 80s, thick grey cable but thats just a guess.

Any chance of a photo Tim ? Dropwire shouldn't be underground, end of.

OK, it's clear we are seeing things from different angles here.

Perhaps he's confusing drop wire and lead in.

Maybe Lee, but if that's DW3 it'll need replacing anyway.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

I suspect the drop wire which is underground put in in the 80s, thick grey cable but thats just a guess.

Any chance of a photo Tim ? Dropwire shouldn't be underground, end of.

This any good or do you want closer?

thick grey cable

You sure thats your phone wire; that (looks like) good old twin and earth.

It is the phone cable I saw the BT man put it in.

Regarding the photo, looking closely at the line on the cable it looks like fig8 cable, like the (usually black) overhead cable.

T&E at first glance, though. The 'line' caught my attention when I zoomed in.

Looks like a very old dropwire 3 and its needs to go.

Edited by MC31 (Wed 29-Mar-17 21:42:00)

In reply to a post by vitrocmax:

Regarding the photo, looking closely at the line on the cable it looks like fig8 cable, like the (usually black) overhead cable.

T&E at first glance, though. The 'line' caught my attention when I zoomed in.

Looking closely it is a fig 8 cable and is about 30m underground to a BT post in a conduit that is cemented over. Hope the SFI engineer is good at blowing cable if he is going to replace it.

It was put in in the 80s during BT's free re-connection promotion.