It also helps on the MML that, like the pairing of lines between York & Church Fenton, the tracks are paired by speed rather than direction.
It also has the advantage of requiring less main steelwork (i.e. masts can be shorter) than the Bonomi equipment.
But York and Newcastle stations themselves are both grade 1 listed and have been wired for years. Why try to make an issue where none exists?
No! The wires are a great sight to see. They offer a clean source of fuel and never impinge upon the beauty of Newcastle, York or Edinburgh.
Wow- looks like I've hit a nerve. Sorry if I have offended.
No, you’ve not hit a nerve. I just feel like being dramatic.
Headspans are used in discrete areas such as listed stations as there is very little steelwork. The below picture of headspans at Glasgow Queen street is sourced from Wikipedia.
I'm with you on the benefits of electrification, and in many areas it doesn't really impinge on the landscape. The most recent major installation along a relatively simple double track railway*, west of Didcot is utterly dreadful however, and the heavy use of bulky TTCs is a major part of that in my opinion. If Network Rail was looking for a way to alienate both locals and those interested in the local environment, it certainly found it (which of course can then be a source of resistance when future schemes are proposed.)
Wasn't there some sort of plan to paint the ironwork thorough the Goring Gap to placate the whingers or has that been forgotten about now?
Steelwork in Germany is painted green and appears to my eyes to stand out more than the weathered galvanised masts and cross-spans found in Switzerland.
Some of the OHE on older lines in France just looks rusty making one wonder whether there are trains running any longer. I am thinking about the line to Toulouse through Cahors.
They decided to plant more trees, IIRC. It‘s probably in the GWML wiring thread somewhere...
The Germans also seem to make widespread use of headspans
The section of line between Slaithwaite and Greenfield isn’t an industrial landscape, it’s an area of outstanding beauty. Done sympathetically, the worst OLE will do is obstruct the sight lines on some of my photos. If they go for a mishmash of bulky structures it would simply draw focus to the railway in a negative way.
Not wanting a big argument, but it is both. What are the reasons for settlements like Diggle and Marsden? Not farming! Of course the wildest bit is in the tunnel.
Marsden's been a settlement for at least 500 years.
More wool than cotton as you pass through Saddleworth, which accounts for most of the area between Mossley and the Pennine watershed. The villages grew up around weaving, initially as a cottage industry and later in mills, and is now a mixed economy of light industry, commuting and some tourism. Much of it is too steep to build on, which probably accounts for it comprising multiple separated villages, whereas the gentler slopes from Oldham and Stalybridge into Manchester are moreorless continuously built up, at least around the main roads. The Marsden-Slaithwaite area is quite similar to Saddleworth, but Huddersfield is more clearly separated than either Oldham or Stalybridge.
I think that is the wrong canal.
Yep. Huddersfield Narrow Canal. The Leeds Liverpool heads up Airedale and on through Burnley and beyond.
Fantastic- thanks for posting. I tend to use piled foundations as opposed to concrete foundations btw.
The completed piles also have the natty purpose-designed orange covers they used on the EGIP project, instead of a random square of plywood with a stone on top.
Those steel sections look more like 'king posts' to me - I'm sure they'll be used for stabilising the formation. Most OLE steelwork masts tend to have a base welded on the bottom for bolting to the foundations (piled or concrete).
Agreed, they’re not long enough for masts.
