Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Pylon News
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May's pylon is a little late arriving, but I hope that the wait will have been worthwhile. In the finest traditions of Pylon of the Month, it was a picture I took myself from the window of a moving car (before all you road safety conscious pylon fans get in touch, don't worry; I was…
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There will always be a place on Pylon of the Month for the snatched pylon pictures taken through the window of a moving vehicle, but this month's pylon is most definitely one of the most artistic to have featured on the blog. With the metallic sky in the background and the contrast with the brown…
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Regular readers of this blog are probably looking at this month's pylon and wondering what is going on, but for the first pylon of 2014 I thought that it would be appropriate to feature the first artist to recognise the significance of the pylon. The picture is by Tristram Hillier and was painted in 1933.…
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Despite all my good intentions, November has almost passed by without a pylon and so here is one that I hope will also do for the festive season ahead. There aren't any suitably wintry photos in my pending tray, but then I realised that a Meccano pylon would be perfect for Christmas. It was built…
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After a break for the start of the academic year in September, Pylon of the Month is back with the first of the autumn international pylons. This month, we in Bulgaria for the first time with another pylon sent in by a fan of the website. For those who have visiting all the pylons of…
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It's that time of year again when I have to select the best pylon picture from my holiday snaps. In some previous years, this hasn't been difficult because I only took one photo but this year my cup runneth over. I could have gone for the close up with the sea in the background, or…
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This month's pylon comes from Kennington just outside Oxford and for reasons that will become obvious, I took it myself very recently. It is very easy to find, being a few hundred metres from Sandford Lock on the Thames on the Sustrans cycle path from Abingdon to Oxford. But the main reason I chose this pylon…
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This month's pylon comes from a fan of the website in Somerset and was taken almost exactly a year ago during the floods that affected Somerset in May 2012. As the summer has started with much better weather so far (at least in Oxfordshire where I'm based) it seemed a good time to remind pylon…
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This month's pylon comes to you from the M5 motorway. It follows in the fine tradition of pylon photos taken whilst travelling, with the earliest example (from July 2009) being this one on the M6 motorway. The fan of the website who submitted this month's photo said: This was photographed from the M5 whilst coming…
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Happy New Year to Pylon of the Month fans everywhere. After a busy festive season, January slipped away and so here is the first offering of 2013. The picture was sent in by a fan of the website and I could hardly refuse to feature it when the email had this to say: This tower's…
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