Ribble River Crossing

[blueshift]

On Saturday 7th May I had a bicycle trip along the River Ribble at Preston to take some pictures of the tall pylons crossing this navigable river.

The area is a heaven for pylons as the massive Penwortham Substation is very near this river crossing, as is Ribble 132KV substation.

This is the crossing point looking down river (west)

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The first pair I came to were (looking North)
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Here we have 132KV on the left (tower AP5) and 400KV on the right (tower ZX437)


The next pair were again 132KV on the left (tower XN5) and 400KV on the right (towerVF5)
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Here are all four lines and their towers on the North side of the river
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One other line crosses the river at this point but it cheats and goes under the river.

This is the South terminal tower of this 33KV line on tower RPB9
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These towers are pretty impressive close up - I will post some more pictures soon

Nick

[caldridge]

Nice pictures.

In this picture:
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The pylon on the right looks like an L2. There's some pylons like that near Hinkley Point in Somerset. I'll see if I can photograph them. The pylon on the left, not sure what design it is, but there's some like that on Avonmouth Bridge, near Bristol.

In this picture:
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The pylon on the left looks like another L2, or is it an L3, because the rest of the pylons in the line look like L3s. The pylon on the right looks like an L6 or an L8.

This is a nice picture with all four of them.

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I might like to photograph these pylons myself.

Cheers

Christopher

[yv47r]

Cheers for those, I am hoping to go and do Penwortham substation area pylons in a few weeks time when I've got some time at weekend.

I'd say that the two L2 towers are L2s but the 132kV line reverts back to L3s either side of the river crossing. This line goes to Peel on the outskirts of Blackpool where the line becomes a L2 towards Bispham with a junction to Stanah which is L7. The other line is L8.

Cheers Paul

[lesc]

This:

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to the left of that L2 looks like a SEE Pirelli PL1a / 51104 on a huge extension. It's certainly prewar.

Les