From L2 to L8

[caldridge]

Here's some pictures of that line at Iron Acton Substation in South Gloucestershire. The line starts off as L2 pylons then changes to L8.

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The L2 and L7 pylons head out of the substation and cross the B4059, near Latteridge. The line starts with an L2 suspension tower and next is a deviation tower.

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The line crosses road with three more L2 suspension towers.

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The pylons head up towards an L6 line near Frampton Cotterell.

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The L7 line ends. The terminal tower is behind the tree in the picture.

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The L2 pylons pass under the L6 pylons. The L7 line continues.

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The L6 pylons.

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The line continues with one more L2 deviation tower.

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Next we have an L8 deviation tower.

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L8 pylons heading off towards Bristol.

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Are these L2 pylons? They are in the L7 line.

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There are two of these pylons in the line, then they change to a different design. I'm not sure what design they are, but they might be a PL design.


Enjoy!

Christopher

[yv47r]

Apr 27, 2011 16:18:15 GMT -5 caldridge said:

Here's some pictures of that line at Iron Acton Substation in South Gloucestershire. The line starts off as L2 pylons then changes to L8.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF2617.jpg

The L2 and L7 pylons head out of the substation and cross the B4059, near Latteridge. The line starts with an L2 suspension tower and next is a tension tower.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF2614.jpg

The line crosses road with three more L2 suspension towers.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF3949.jpg
i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF2615.jpg

The pylons head up towards an L6 line near Frampton Cotterell.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF2612.jpg

The L7 line ends. The terminal tower is behind the tree in the picture.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF2613.jpg

The L2 pylons pass under the L6 pylons. The L7 line continues.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF3946.jpg

The L6 pylons.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF2611.jpg

The line continues with one more L2 tension tower.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF3944.jpg
i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF3943.jpg

Next we have an L8 tension tower.

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L8 pylons heading off towards Bristol.

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These continue onwards to Filton via the two low height towers as the line crosses the M4 and railway line near Stoke Gifford (just before Bristol Parkway if on a train) and with a brief underground section nr to the Filton Abbey Wood complex they reappear and run parallel to the railway beyond Filton AW station to terminate with an L2 DT tower.

Are these L2 pylons? They are in the L7 line.

i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/cmaldridge/DSCF3935.jpg

There are two of these pylons in the line, then they change to a different design. I'm not sure what design they are, but they might be a PL design.

Enjoy!

Christopher

Yep they're L2s alright, weird using them on the PL line though must have some spare towers when they came to build the line maybe?

Cheers Paul

[caldridge]

Here's a picture of the L8 pylons on the M4 near Bristol.

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What design are the other pylons next to them? That's the design that the L7 pylons change to.

[yv47r]

Looks like a Blaw Knox SWE PL16 D2 tower when comparing it to the drawing numbered 51101 in the Tower Bible with the 132kV L8 towers alongside them.

Cheers Paul

[lesc]

Apr 29, 2011 17:40:36 GMT -5 yv47r said:

Looks like a Blaw Knox SWE PL16 D2 tower when comparing it to the drawing numbered 51101 in the Tower Bible with the 132kV L8 towers alongside them.

Cheers Paul

+1 that's the SWE flavour of Blaw Knox PL16 D2 ED51101.

Les

[yv47r]

Thanks Lesc I will be passing these pylons this coming Saturday on my way to stay at my brothers in Weston SM. A shame that most trains don't have the drop-light windows anymore, it makes taking photos from moving trains through windows a p.i.t.a

Cheers Paul

[caldridge]

I've taken some pictures of those low height pylons in the line.

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I photographed them from the M4, when I was heading to Weston Super Mare.

What design are they, L9?

[lesc]

I'll put 50p on that beastie being a modified L12 LD40 or LD60.



Les

[caldridge]

Hang on, there are some L9 pylons in the L6 line just off the M4 from junction 18, I'll see if I can photograph them.

[Flash Bristow]

Christopher I think this one's L9: www.gorge.org/images/field/

You can see them close to Bristol just off the M4.

However L9 is a sort of low-height sub set of L12, I think, so they could just be modified L12.

[caldridge]

I do know about those L9s Flash, that's the ones I was on about.