Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Pylon of the Month
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After a pylonless April, I decided that May should be a pylon picture that I had taken myself rather than one of the many sent in regularly by fans of the website. Near where I live a few miles south of Oxford is part of the National Cycle Route 5. A mile or so north…
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March was slipping away, but like an awful lot of people, I find myself spending more time at home and so there really is no excuse not to get writing. Normal life may be suspended for a lot of us at the moment, but the people working at power stations are vital and so their…
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After a dry January on the pylon front (but not on the alcohol front….), February's pylon is a cracker. As with so many of the pictures on the blog, it was provided by a fan of the website and the email that accompanied the picture is an inspiration to pylon fans everywhere. We've always…
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December's pylon of the month is another first for the blog as the observant amongst you will already have spotted. It is an absence of pylon or a pylon of the imagination, at least in the picture above. I spotted it on Twitter recently where it was posted by @geospacedman with the following description: Contrails?…
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October slipped by without a pylon and November was in grave danger of going the same way until two things happened. One was a comment on the blog asking when the next pylon was going to be posted and the other was a visit to Geneva where I saw this beauty. But it wasn't just…
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This month's pylon is from Italy and will be particularly appreciated by pylon fans of a bibulous disposition. It was sent in by a fan of the website and was taken in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. In particular, the vineyards of Barbaresco, and according to wine-searcher: Barbaresco is one of the great wines…
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July's pylon is another Wiltshire pylon and the red sky and clouds provide a beautiful backdrop to its lovely silhouette. There is definitely something here for the cloud spotters and the photographers, but you can pick out the Stockbridge dampers and two sets of ceramic insulator discs so there is also something there for hardcore pylon…
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June's Pylon of the Month is an absolute cracker that I first came across on Twitter courtesy of @CPF_Photography who then kindly gave permission for me to use it. It was taken in Birmingham near one of the city's many canals and for more wonderful Birmingham photographs look on the CPF photography website. Let's deal…
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Having missed March and with April nearly half gone, I was determined to get a new pylon on the blog and so this month's pylon is another one sent in by a fan. It comes freighted with historical significance as the excerpt from the email that accompanied the picture shows. Walking down Holywell Lane through…
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February's Pylon of the Month comes courtesy of Physics students at The Angmering School in West Sussex. As a Physics teacher myself, how could I resist a picture that came about as a result of learning about electricity transmission? In fact, as some readers will know, Pylon of the Month in its current incarnation came…
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