Ferrybridge, Paradise Lane & Tadcaster

[lesc]

Been a while since the last one! A trip to Bradford had me killing a couple of hours on the way home and here's the result. Enjoy the pictures.

Heading off down the Selby Fork from Ferrybridge to Monk Fryston on the A63 finds these 400kv L6MD CEGB 17/5993 connecting Ferrybridge to Eggborough. Please note these are single insulator / 4 conductor (except for the deviation towers)

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This L6MD30 (0-5^o) looks like a JL Eve D3 on steroids and looks like it's been strengthened. Unusual design and still running brown ceramic.

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Looking down into the Vale of York... and Eggborough (thank you Blueshift)

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Note the third L6 from the left.
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An excellent example of telephoto congestion distortion (distance compression) with the Olympus 40-150mm maxed out! Pylons look just as good as railway lines...
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Looking south towards Doncaster.

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East of Monk Fryston village was this genuine Milliken PL1S ED51155 string, a rare beastie in the North East. This string also has these GEN/OHL L4MS pugly efforts (near Selby) but couldn't get near them.

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Off west down the A64 gets me to the village of Bramham.

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The aptly named Paradise Way! ;D
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This small substation is very visible from the A1 and is where all these 132 L3DS strings congregate - with these two L3DT ED51190 and an L3DT90EWCO ED51190

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In the background is one of these L3D30(0-10^o) 17/9568 or ED51187 efforts this one looks nearer 5^o but is not of the original 'Dounreay' type but the more common later type, YV47R and others call these babies L3D10/30.
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These 132kV L3DS are ubiquitous here.

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A guest L7CD 17/9379.

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Now heading east and at Tad. Running single 275kV/0.4" Zebra here are these L66D2 Monk Fryston to York more rare Blaw Knox PAS goodness for everyone. Neat

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Visible in the b/g is an L66D10 this one hardly deviates at all (5^o) the similarity to the PL16 is obvious...

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Looking like a PL16 on steroids is this L66D10. It appears to be the same design as the D30.

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Enjoy!

Les

[blueshift]

Excellent pictures. That part of Yorkshire is indeed a pylon Mecca.

One point though, 7511, 7512 and 7524 are actually Eggborough Power Station and not Drax Power Station

[lesc]

Thank you - posting changed from Drax to Eggborough

Is Drax the next one away?

Les

[blueshift]

Both Eggborough and Drax have a single multi flue chimney.
Eggborough has 8 cooling towers in 2 rows of 4. Drax has 12 cooling towers in 2 blocks of 6

Drax is East of Eggborough

Nick

[rillington]

Indeed, excellent pictures, and the pictures you took are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of pylons in the area.

[caldridge]

Nice pictures, Les.

Whereabouts are those L66 pylons? It's nice to see that there are still some L66s around especially after what happened to those ones between Spennymoor and Norton. Are the L66 pylons between Stella and Carlisle still around?

Christopher

[rillington]

The L66 towers you see in Les's pictures run from Monk Fryston, just north of Ferrybridge, to west of York. The route used to run right the way through to Teesside but lost more than half of the route in stages between the mid 1980s and 1996 when the towers between Shipton and Moor Monkton were removed.

[lesc]

The L66 pictures were taken west of Tadcaster:



some were taken to the left of the '54' at the bottom centre. Some others were taken at Smaws Farm (top right)- this was where the D10 was.

There was another L3DS set near Boston Spa too but stopping on this narrow busy road is almost impossible

HTH

Les

[caldridge]

If I'm right, isn't it the same L66 route that changes to L3C pylons near Moor Monkton?

[rillington]

You are correct.

A former junction tower, located at Moor Monkton, is where the change now takes place. That tower has now become a D90 deviation tower.

[yv47r]

Nice L66 goodness in Yorkshire, must get round to seeing these close-up sometime soon. Had a quick visit to Blackpool today and to kill some time I went to look at some L2s in 132kV use with a nice L2 to L7CD junction interface Photo thread to follow soon.

Cheers Paul

[rillington]

Looking forward to seeing them.

If you do get to Yorkshire then I'd recommend doing the journey along the A1M from the M62 junction to the A64 junction (41 to 44) and then turn right off the A64 junction towards York and to follow the L66 route for a short while, turn off the A64 a mile after Bramham heading into Tadcaster, following the road shown on the map earlier in this topic. That's the best road to get a good sideways run of the L66 route which is probably what Les did.

[lesc]

Indeed, except I came off near Brotherton - which is shown as the A162 on Bing Maps but is signposted A63 and the satnav was also showing the road as the A162/A63. Would have caught the start of these L66's if I'd came off the next junction up. Some hasty doubling back near Selby got me on the A64 for the L3 & L66 goodness... turning round at Bramham then off towards Tad after getting these L3's. Beware Smaws Farm as when I was turning the car round that's when I spotted the sign "PRIVATE ROAD NO TRESPASSING" ;D

If I hadn't came off the wrong junction I wouldn't have got that genuine PL1

Satnav pic. This was taken at the layby where I got the L6 shots.



Moral of this story - take a map

Les

[rillington]

Unlucky.

You went up the old A1 and apart from travelling under the L6 Ferrybridge to Eggborough route you missed all the Ferrybridge goodies which are brilliantly viewable from the A1M.