Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Pylon of the Month
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Sometimes, a month passes so quickly that I never get around to posting a new pylon. As a result I often get e-mails reminding me to update the blog (really I do; you know who you are…..). Looking back through the archives, however, I was shocked to see that there has never been a December…
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After a break for the month of August, Pylon of the Month returns for the new academic year. This month's pylon is the blogging equivalent of the traditional "What I did on my Summer Holidays" essay that marks the return to school for so many pupils. It is located on the Pelion peninsula in Greece…
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This month, I thought it only appropriate to choose an Olympic pylon in recognition of the London Olympics. If you are looking at the picture and wondering what makes this an Olympic pylon then you need to know where it is located in order to make the link. The photo is taken over the River…
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I have a backlog of pylon pictures sent in by fans from all over the world. I try to mix them up with pylon pictures from the UK so that the blog doesn't lose touch with its roots, but as soon as this image arrived in my inbox I knew it had to be the…
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I've been meaning to feature a pylon like this one ever since reading Alan de Botton's splendid book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work'. It has a chapter on electricity transmission and pylons and in it, he has this to say about pylons: "In different species, I noted varieties of modesty or arrogance, honesty or…
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This month's pylon comes from Afganistan and at a height of around 3800m above sea level, I'm pretty certain that the pylon in the background of the picture is the highest pylon to feature on Pylon of the Month. Are there any higher pylons anywhere in the world? Answers in an e-mail to Pylon of…
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Happy New Year to Pylon fans everywhere!! We start 2012 with a Kenyan pylon (not the first to be featured, see October 2009 for the first Kenyan pylon). The wind and rain are rattling against the window as I write this and so after a rather miserable start to the year on the weather front,…
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After all the excitement of September when Pylon of the Month featured on The One Show I have had a busy time and so hence the very delayed publication of a new pylon. Normal service should be resumed in December, so for for all you pylon fans who have contacted me (there have been quite…
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September marks the beginning of the new school year and so with this academic theme in mind I thought that an Oxford pylon would be appropriate. This picture was taken from a bridge over the railway line about a mile or so south of the city centre in Kennington (very near the entrance to the Redbridge…
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Tweet http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js After a break from pylons in July, Pylon of the Month is back again and as summer is with us it is time for the pylon picture taken on my holidays. This year, it comes from Greece and it was taken in the village of Agios Floros just north of Kalamata (famous for its…
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