Pylons abroad

[poyks]

In 2006 I did a bit of traveling around, and when abroad, I thought that the perfect souvenir would be pictures of myself with local pylons.


Ireland;





Poland;





Spain;

[Flash Bristow]

Love the last one. I've got some great ones of Iceland but it was always me snapping. I need to get more photos with me in.

[poyks]

Cheers. Yes the last one caught my imagination, just because it's so different.


It's a flashback to the days when I was a kid, going on holidays to Scotland and Cornwall and my poor parents always had to take me to see the local substations!! ;D

[rillington]

Unless I'm missing something, there aren't any wires attached to that pylon.

Scotland has some excellent pylons hasn;t it. Lots of routes going across the fantastic Scottish countriside.

And, for me, my granddad used to take me on an annual power stations trip when we visited all the power stations in the area - Drax, Eggborough and Ferrybridge plus Thorpe Marsh near Doncaster on occasions as well. Happy days. He once arranged for us to go around Drax, and I'm not talking about the tourist trip here!

[poyks]

Oh yes, I'm quite familiar with the Stations around the Humber area being a Lincolnshire lad originally.

Aug 18, 2008 1:39:10 GMT -5 rillington said:

Unless I'm missing something, there aren't any wires attached to that pylon.

If you look close you can just see the double conductors and the small insulators. For a tower of it's height, it obviously doesn't carry a lot of juice! ;D

[rillington]

I come from East Yorkshire and know very well the pylons north of the Humber and there is one route which crosses the number near Broomfleet. I drove down there to have a look and recall that i could see large numbers of pylons on the other side of the river.

Back on topic, I still can't see any wires but there must be something going on there. Beautiful day for the picture as well.

[poyks]

Aug 18, 2008 1:39:10 GMT -5 rillington said:

Scotland has some excellent pylons hasn;t it. Lots of routes going across the fantastic Scottish countriside.

After a good dig around I've found a small batch of photos I took in the Highlands of Scotland a few years ago. As you can tell by the angles of the suspension insulators, it was VERY windy!

[naughtyhorse]

whoa! that lat lot is very windy indeed!
in the pic from spain you can just see a span heading from the tower off to the right of the pic, and obviously a cable ladder going up the the insulator sets - poyks i agree, if it were in the UK it would be 33 or 66kV twin conductors are a bit unusual at lower voltages too! also explains the beefy looking cables going up the body.
the UK's l7(c) spec allows for twin lynx conductor, but i have yet to see it anywhere.

[poyks]

As is traditional now, here is a photo of me in Turkey with a (sort of) pylon.

Not many traditional pylons over there, but I did think these Heath Robinson style concrete enigmas were quite interesting, more so by the fact that they seemed to defy the laws of gravity.

[Flash Bristow]

Good to see what you look like! There is a photo of me up a pylon at Glastonbury Festival but it's from 2000 and doesn't represent me now at all:



Would love to know what the rest of you look like (anyone wanna start a thread in the off-topic board?)

[poyks]

Good idea!......