New photos from YV47R

[yv47r]

Ok, I'm back from my new year break and I have just uploaded some more photos from my collection. This time some oldies from 1993 showing the re-location of the substation at Macclesfield
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Then a pair of photos of the L6 tower I built from wire for my A Level Tech & Design course. Its not finished but it took ages just to get it to this stage, many hours in the workshop brazing the rod sections together and adding the cross members.
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I will take some photos of the Hornby model pylons and add them soon.

Then a few of the L3? design of tower that runs between New Mills and Buxton/Waterswallows El Subs along the A6 and A6 bypass between Dove Holes and Whaley Bridge. Only the suspension towers are of L? design but all of the deviation and terminal towers are of L3 design I think. The circuit changes from being twin conductor to single conductor near Chapel Milton where a terminal tower facilitates the change over.
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Enjoy Paul

[rillington]

Brilliant pictures.

I recognise the suspension towers route of those last pictures. They look similar to L3C and run parallel to the A6 from Buxton to beyond Chapel-en-le-Frith from memory.

[yv47r]

Hi rillington,

Yep those are the ones, I will make an effort to get some more pictures of the deviation towers sometime in spring and have a look at the terminal tower and low height towers where it joins the New Mills - Stalybridge set near to Gowhole, New Mills

I will upload some more photos from my days when I was at uni at Stoke in the mid-90s

Cheers Paul

[yv47r]

Some more archive photos now added. Four photos of the Cellerhead to Daines circuit rewiring and re-insulating from April 1994. Photos taken near Bosley, Macclesfield adjacent to the A54 road between Bosley Crossroads and Congleton.
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Four photos from 2000 of the nearest pylons to where I live - what remains of what I believe is a 1930s design of tower for 11kV transmission. Original route used to run between Stockport, Bredbury Vernon Park power station and Macclesfield.
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Now these next two are real special!! Two photos of a insulator suspension string located in the power hall building at Manchester Science & Industry Museum (MOSI)
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Have a look at the MOSI site www.msim.org.uk/

And last two super doopa views of a PL1B terminal tower next to Hall i'th' Wood railway station just north of Bolton
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Plenty more to come soon

Cheers Paul

[rillington]

Excellent photos again Paul.

I can't recall seeing examples of the second set near Stockport. Would be interesting to see a deviation tower for that design.

[poyks]

Awesome photos!! Excellent!

[earthwire]

Perfect imagery there keep them coming

[Flash Bristow]

Love the baby terminal tower!

[yv47r]

Re the local 11kV set, yes there is one deviation tower and I think it is probably the last remaining one. If its a decent day on Sunday I will have a walkabout and go and get some photos of it. There used to be another deviation tower further along towards Bredbury, which used to be located nearly alongside L2 D60 tower YV51 at the side of the A626 Stockport to Marple road. There are lots of local pylons that I need to go out and take photos of and joining PAS and this forum have given me a new incentive to do so.

In fact there used to be a parallel set of PL1B towers that used to run alongside the 11kV set until at least the 1970s and at Hazel Grove they used to split and one set ran alongside the BR ex Midland New Mills to Heaton Mersey line and the other set continued on towards Macclesfield.

Yes the baby terminal tower is very cute, I will endeavour to take some more photos from the station and also of the L7? 132kV D90 tower next to it.

Cheers Paul

[blueshift]

Excellent photos!

The "baby terminal tower" is at the end of a circuit from Rochdale Substation. The underground cable from your tower goes to Walmsley substation and then onwards, still underground to Bolton Substation. The line on the double circuit tower, next to the baby terminal tower, runs from Kearsley Substation and also goes to Bolton Substation. You can see the end of this line in this picture I took last year.
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See this handy diagram
www.unitedutilities.com/LTDS_2008_132kV_Geographic_expanded.pdf

Nick

[Flash Bristow]

There's one next to the M5 in Somerset as well, literally right alongside it, but I never manage to get a good snap. I need to try and find it on Google Maps and then see if I can get into the field to check it out.

[yv47r]

Thanks for the info Blueshift. I will try and go and see the L7 D90 tower to complete and perhaps take some more photos of the baby PL1B. Also worth a look at the PL1 towers near to Agecroft and Clifton sometime.

I had a walkabout earlier today and took in some pylon photography along the way The weather was cold and overcast but at least it was dry. Whilst looking at the 11kV route, the thought occured to me that most of these towers would be on the proposed route of the A6M bypass or SEMMS as it is now known, so they would almost certainly disappear if the bypass were to get off the drawing board!

Here is a selection showing the 11kV set and the local 275kV/400kV L2 route.

11kV suspension -
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11kV Deviation tower - for rillington
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L2 suspension tower YV45 on Macclesfield to Bredbury 275kV and Macclesfield to Stocksbridge 400kV route/circuits.
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Enjoy! Paul

[rillington]

Superb pictures Paul!!

[Dr Fortran]

Jan 7, 2009 18:50:02 GMT -5 yv47r said:

And last two super doopa views of a PL1B terminal tower next to Hall i'th' Wood railway station just north of Bolton
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I think this may well actually be a PL16 terminal. (The earth peak on PL1 is almost non-existent.) It's not unusual to find PL16 terminals on PL1 lines - generally indicating that the termination has been mucked about with some time after construction.

It's a brilliant tower whatever it is!

[Dr Fortran]

Jan 4, 2009 18:18:48 GMT -5 yv47r said:

Then a few of the L3? design of tower that runs between New Mills and Buxton/Waterswallows El Subs along the A6 and A6 bypass between Dove Holes and Whaley Bridge. Only the suspension towers are of L? design but all of the deviation and terminal towers are of L3 design I think. The circuit changes from being twin conductor to single conductor near Chapel Milton where a terminal tower facilitates the change over.
i195.photobucket.com/albums/z231/paulsrailphotos/UK%20Pylons/DSCF0080.jpg
i195.photobucket.com/albums/z231/paulsrailphotos/UK%20Pylons/DSC00226.jpg
i195.photobucket.com/albums/z231/paulsrailphotos/UK%20Pylons/DSC00235.jpg

I'm sure you're right about these being L3. The suspension towers are of the later design with the extended middle crossarm (IIRC designated DS rather than D). If they are recent construction built with metric steel stock, then they'll be L3c. The 132kV insulator sets make the proportions all look a little odd.

I'm not sure exactly what the first of the photos shows. I'm sure the double circuit tower is L3 - the tower body looks to be the same as an L3 D60, but the crossarms are very long. Anybody have any ideas what the tower type is? The two single-circuit towers are too tall for L3. Possibly L2 single-circuit terminals?

Nice photos.