NEEB66KV And Other Stuff

lesc
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NEEB66KV And Other Stuff Aug 9, 2009 11:05:30 GMT -5

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Post by lesc on Aug 9, 2009 11:05:30 GMT -5

Culag B&B near Luss.

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blueshift Full Member I dream of wires Posts: 160	NEEB66KV And Other Stuff Aug 9, 2009 14:51:36 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by blueshift on Aug 9, 2009 14:51:36 GMT -5 An excellent set of photographs. I love pylons, but the design you show in "strangeness and charm" eg P8033168 is really ugly. I know they are less tall than other designs but they look much worse. Nick

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NEEB66KV And Other Stuff Aug 9, 2009 17:38:53 GMT -5

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Post by rillington on Aug 9, 2009 17:38:53 GMT -5

Excellent pictures Les.

As I'm familiar with north Yorkshire, hopefully I can add some extra information.

The first few pictures feature the northern section of the S Hutton to Malton line. The section between Sheriff Hutton and Barton are PL16 towers strung for 66 with the second half being JL Eve towers which run alongside, or close to, the A64 for much of their journey. However, the route finishes randomly in a field a few miles from Malton rather than running to the substation. I guess the final couple of miles to the substation is laid underground although we do get a short route of parallel JL Eve towers running for about half a mile just south of the A64 Malton bypass which may well be the final part of the S Hutton to Malton route being built overground rather than underground.

The L6 towers are indeed the Drax to Teesside route. It must be one of the longer supergrid routes in the country as the journey must be well over 100 miles. The route crosses an older L6 route between York and Hull. Originally they literally built a ring where the two routes crossed, between the villages of Thornton and Allerthorpe in East Yorkshire. The Hull to York line was built many years before Drax to Teesside. However, just under 20 years ago that ring became a full-on substation and the two routes actually stop and then start again.

Finally, regarding the PL1 (PL1B) single string towers. Yes they are rare and I can only think of two routes, one of which you capture in your pictures. It runs from York to Easingwold as part of a three leg journey from York to Harrogate. Part two has, I think, L9 towers with the final section being a 132 double circuit of PL16s with the odd L4 thrown in, running from Womald Green to Harrogate and this route follows the A61. The route terminates with a junction tower where the 132Kv L3 set from Ferrybridge appears and the combined set finished with four towers - one L3-type suspension tower then two L7 deviation towers and a final terminal tower.

The other PL1B route also runs from York and goes to just south of Selby, terminating in the middle of a field just before the L6 route from Ferrybridge to Eggborough.

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NEEB66KV And Other Stuff

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Post by rillington on Aug 9, 2009 17:38:53 GMT -5