Pylons Around Fife

[lesc]

Everyone -

Another day, another ship. This time no piccies of that but a few from around West / East Fife should keep everybody happy enough.
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Note the pictures are now tagged with PAS_whatever as Windows 7 allows you to do that!

Starting at Inverkeithing and near the east coast railway line is a small substation with 132KV in and 33KV out.

A PL16 (Scottish) / 33KV to start the thing off.

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Looking the other way are a couple of PL16DT in the substation.

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The PL16 string feeding this has been caught before further up. For those who know this part of the world they follow the old Fife Coal Co. tramway.

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The other side of the 33KV string (near the M90) has this PL16DT feeding a couple of poles. Town in background is Inverkeithing and the Forth Road Bridge is also in shot.

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Detail on one of the poles.

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Moving on: near Thornton Yard (Kirkcaldy) is a small substation with a PL16DDT / ED51150, a PL16DT and a PL16D30. This is an ex mining region and the 66KV-system is also very much in evidence here with the same baby pylons as the NE, Yorkshire and Edinburgh.

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Unknown PL1-ish pylon is the only one of its type in a string of PL16's.

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Baby PL16D10 it's almost like a scaled down version. 66KV.
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PL16D60 / ED51132. Tweeked in Picasa.
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Approaching Leven the 66kv line terminates with this striking DT.

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A string of baby pylons completes the circuit. 66KV.
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METHIL NO MORE - East Fife Football Stadium isn't on the satnav. Being originally from Dunfermline I'm pleased with that

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Not one of the SSEB's better ideas, building a power station that uses coal slurry. They raved on about this at the time and we in Fife had geography classes on it but by 1970 its goose was well and truly cooked with the death of the NCB Fife coalfields and the Wemyss coalfield system shortly afterwards. They're trying to preserve it as a monument to gross stupidity as it would pollute all over again if they flattened the thing. Methil Power Station was built in 1963 and had 2 x 30MW generating sets.

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A bleak, windy and rainy day with the camera in B&W mode. The gatehouse taken from Leven bus station. Note the Iberdrola logo.

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Looks just as ghastly with the trees covering it!
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Another shot.
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ABERNETHY TAKE 2 - . L6 & PL1b single circuit marching up the Fifeshire hills. The L6 go to Westfield and the PL1b's just disappear.

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JLEve PL16DT90 / ED51151. The PL1b line terminates with this. On the other side of the road there's a PL1bS10 with considerable deviation in suspension insulators but you've got to be a goat to get to it!

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From left to right. L6, PL16DT, Milliken PL1, poles, 'Buchanty Type' PL1D10 series D60 and a few more poles complete this electrical line up.

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Looking the other way.

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Milliken PL1D2E60 crossing the River Earn, the extension making them as large as the L6.

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A glimpse of sunshine and Les in the right place. Milliken PL1D2 / ED51102 132kv double circuit.

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Rounding off - an L4MDT at Abernethy.

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Les

[blueshift]

I love the picture of Methil power station. Wasn't there a similar slurry power station called "Barony"?

Nick

[lesc]

Yes there was and hopefully it suffered the same fate. They should fill the damn things with concrete and make them monuments to crimes against the environment, these things didn't just pollute, they polluted lots, with this and the WPR steam locomotives Methil was turned black with all the soot!

If it wasn't for the Frances Colliery fire it would probably still have been running today.

les

[Flash Bristow]

Sorry it's taken me a few days before I got to this, but great pics! I especially like the one where the sunlight catches it.