M1 Leicestershire pylons

[hvdc]

Some strange shaped pylons south of the M1/M69 junction near Leicester

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[yv47r]

I have seen these ones to I think they start up near Chesterfield and run down towards Alfreton then south. I would like to have a good look at these someday and record all the different towers as they are like no PL design that is in the Tower Bible

Cheers Paul

[12voltCol]

Jan 17, 2014 16:31:47 GMT -5 yv47r said:

I have seen these ones to I think they start up near Chesterfield and run down towards Alfreton then south. I would like to have a good look at these someday and record all the different towers as they are like no PL design that is in the Tower Bible

Cheers Paul

I have seen this type near Wingfield (Chesterfield) in another (older - Sept 2008) thread here (Pylons in the Garden).

[yv47r]

These towers appear to start at Calow substation as PL16 so suggesting that the route was modified perhaps. They then head in a southerly direction towards Alfreton where it reverts to PL16 for the last few towers again suggesting route mods.

The same towers resume to the west of Alfreton somewhere between the A615 and A61 roads then south alongside the A38 on the west side then cross the A38. Where the line crosses the A608 there are a pair of what look like transposition towers straddling the road near Morley. But these seem to be a different tower and the bottom and middle phases are anchored to the middle crossarms. The unused lower crossarms are unequal lengths. These towers terminate at Spondon.

Another line of the original towers starts from Spondon and heads roughly north with a tee with a PL16 line just south of the village of Stanley then up over the M1 just north of Jnc 27 but becomes an L4 line to the substation at Kirkby-in-Ashfield. The original towers resume as line HL shortly after and runs to Staythorpe.

I guess another line runs somewhere down towards Leicester as shown crossing the M1/M69 in the photo.

Cheers Paul