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Post by yv47r on May 16, 2012 16:12:10 GMT -5
Maybe its a spare L66 D tower that they used up from stock? I've compared the Google map image link that Christopher added maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Harrogate&hl=en&ll=54.006905,-1.557108&spn=0.003291,0.010568&sll=54.006924,-1.556894&sspn=0.003317,0.010568&oq=HARR&t=h&hnear=Harrogate,+North+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&z=17&layer=c&cbll=54.006926,-1.556897&panoid=y7Fhg-fSVf-sRrFDYca9lg&cbp=12,358.48,,1,-7.95 to this view of an L66 D on the XB route llandru.servehttp.com/Various241011/PA247547.JPG from Les plus this one on the line to Monk Fryston llandru.servehttp.com/Various241011/PA247546.JPG from Les And then what I take to be a L3 D i195.photobucket.com/albums/z231/paulsrailphotos/UK%20Pylons/2010%2005%20Worle/DSCF1442.jpg that I took near Worle, Weston-super-Mare To my eyes the first three photos are the same type of tower when compared to the last link. And that brings me back to some L66 like towers I recall seeing the other year when I was on my way to Harrogate and called at the Wetherby A1(M) services and I could spy in the distance what looked like an L66 D30 where the line crosses the road. Maybe L66 towers were reused to replace earlier L3 and L7 towers? Not impossible I suppose. Eeeh its fun this transmission tower hobby! Cheers Paul
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Post by rillington on May 16, 2012 16:25:00 GMT -5
Indeed. After all, this tower is immediately followed by a L7 junction tower and it isn't that often that you get a L3-type tower (it could easily be L66 looking more closely) followed by an L7 is it and, of course, the other way, the route becomes PL16 with guest L4s. This gives us the terminal tower followed by two L7 deviation towers, L66 (poss L3) suspension tower, L66/L3 deviation tower, L66/L3 junction tower and PL16 suspension tower. Now that's what I call pylon variety
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Post by yv47r on May 17, 2012 6:47:03 GMT -5
Plus the west side of the L66 type D tower is on single conductor whilst the east side is on twin conductors from the start at the L7 terminal tower through to the junction tower where the 132kV turns and the route to York with its PL16 and L4 towers as described.
Where the same L3 line eventually crosses the A1(M) near to Wetherby services both circuits are on twin conductors - they can be seen on the Google street views clearly.
Cheers Paul
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Post by rillington on May 17, 2012 7:29:03 GMT -5
so are we saying that the specific tower being asked about is almost certainly L66 rather than l3?
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Post by yv47r on May 17, 2012 16:48:51 GMT -5
Yes, to me that tower looks more like an L66 rather than L3. A clearer image of the actual tower alongside the A59 would nail it for sure.
Cheers Paul
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Post by lesc on May 19, 2012 18:03:03 GMT -5
I'll take a look next time I'm down there - I go to Bingley from time to time but usually travel south of Harrogate where I see this very same L3DS/132kV set from the A658 - it would be odd to see a guest L66 in a sea of L3's (and on 132 at that), watch this space The L66D10/30 is a very much chunkier affair than the L3D30(0-10 o) or L3D30(10-30 o) it's more like a PL16 deviation tower that's had too many hormones when it was growing up ;D Cheers Les
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Post by zulumike on Nov 20, 2013 14:39:31 GMT -5
Hi posters, just reviewing this thread and find that some corrections are necessary, with regard to historical fact. 1) The XZ route replaced XA which was the Clydes Mill - Harker L66 line.2) XC ran from Stella - West Melton near Wombwell, Barnsley. 3) I may be wrong but I think the Norton-Lackenby route may have been XCA ? . zulumike.
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Post by yv47r on Nov 20, 2013 18:36:05 GMT -5
Thanks for the clarification on those. I had guessed the original line to Harker would be XA. I didn't realise that the XC line ran all the way down to West Melton.
Cheers Paul
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