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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.SPECS cameras look like CCTV cameras painted yellow and are mounted high over the road. They are in pairs with a second one mounted at a set distance down the road from the first. They measure your average speed over that set distance by clocking your registration plate at the first one and timing how long it takes for that same registration to pass the second one. These have no road markings.
All speed cameras must be high visibility yellow by law. Those that aren't are normally mounted near traffic lights and are actually red-light-jumper cameras.
The only thing I have to add to Skids' answer is about camera vans. They usually 'get you' coming towards them, but can get you going away. Most people accelerate after passing the van. To combat this, they can swivel the whole camera rig 180 degrees and get you going away through their windscreen. They will also 'do' you for any other visible offence eg insecure load, using a phone, reading a map etc.
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