Photos from around the Tyne Crossing

[lesc]

Everyone - Spent a pleasant hour this afternoon catching this lot in the brilliant sunshine.

Near North Shields catches this lot:

Tyne Crossing - Also visible is the Penshaw Monument, near Washington.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060508.JPG
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060510.JPG

Is this an L8 deviation tower? Excellent light for taking pictures the ship visible on the left is the car carrier City of Lutece parked at the Port of Tyne.

llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060512.JPG
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060513.JPG

30MPH to nowhere!
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060509.JPG

Huge L2 (?) deviation tower in excellent light.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060511.JPG

Looking North:
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060515.JPG

Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate:
L6 (?) L8(??) in amongst a sea of L2's - presumably put up when the estate was built.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060517.jpg

Looking S. from inside the trading estate, L2 and the L6/8.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060518.JPG

Near Palmersville Metro:
PL16's / 33KV double circuit and insulators on poles, also 33KV march away from an industrial estate near the metro station. Christ knows the age of these.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060519.jpg
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060520.jpg

Killingworth Village:

PL16 deviation tower and more poles:
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060521.JPG
The windfarm is at Blyth.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060522.JPG

PL16 / 33KV tower near Killingworth Village
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060523.jpg
Triangles!
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060524.jpg

Same tower taken from A19 on way home.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060525.jpg

Les

[rillington]

Cracking pictures.

Long time since I've been to Tyneside but I do recall there being a lot of pylons in the area.

It isn't that often we see PL16 towers string for 33. I can only think of one set of PL16s for 33 towers and the run for a small distance north of York - the cross the A64 at Barton-le-Willows midways betweem York and Malton. The PL16s form half of the total route - the second half features the JL Eve towers and the route stops a couple of kiles west of Malton.

[Dr Fortran]

Great photoshoot Les!

Is this an L8 deviation tower? Excellent light for taking pictures the ship visible on the left is the car carrier City of Lutece parked at the Port of Tyne.

llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060512.JPG
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060513.JPG

It's L2 (note that the phases are stacked vertically), but it's not one of the common tower types. If you compare the tower body with an L2 D60, you'll see that it's the same. However, the crossarms are equal length both sides and square ended.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it may be an L2 D40EC. I've seen these very occasionally used as the towers at either end of a diamond crossing or at locations like this where there is a big change in line tension between one side of the tower and the other. D40 indicates 40 degrees maximum deviation and EC is "earthwire changeover". I don't know what that actually means. This is probably a question for members more knowledgeable than me on the detailed engineering aspects of line design.

I've seen a similar tower at Canterbury North substation on the line entry from Kemsley, but that tower has a D30-style pyramidal earth peak.

Huge L2 (?) deviation tower in excellent light.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060511.JPG

Yes, it's L2 - an unusually tall D60.

Looking North:
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060515.JPG

L8 D60 nearest camera then L8 line tower.

Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate:
L6 (?) L8(??) in amongst a sea of L2's - presumably put up when the estate was built.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060517.jpg

Looking S. from inside the trading estate, L2 and the L6/8.
llandru.servehttp.com/pylons060209/P2060518.JPG

L8. Is this a different view of the L8 towers noted above?

I've seen a few examples of 33kV on PL16, but usually only 2 or 3 towers max, not a long line like this.

Interesting pics!

[Dr Fortran]

I also meant to note that at work we were recently involved in preparing photomontages of a proposed re-powering (windfarm talk for newer, bigger wind turbines) of Blyth Harbour windfarm. I remember using a number of the pylons around there as reference objects to obtain a good digital match on some of the photographs.

[poyks]

Excellent pictures, I enjoyed those thanks.