Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Science
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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 comes from Salisbury Plain. It was sent in by a fan of the website who had this to say: Driving across Wiltshire about the time of the summer solstice, I could imagine these flat fields being used to grow wheat thousands of years ago. These big bales are reminiscent of standing stones near…
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, some photons of light set out on a journey towards earth. They arrived recently and had the luck to be captured by @Skullet who posted a picture on twitter which caught my eye because of the pylon. The galaxy concerned is Andromeda and you can…
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With my summer holiday (in Turkey) looming and the usual 'holiday pylon' to follow in August, I thought that I would choose a UK pylon for July. I have quite a backlog of submissions from fans of the website, but this rather splendid one from Essex caught me eye as I trawled back through…
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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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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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Happy New Year to pylon fans everywhere. After a Christmas break where I failed to get any pylon pictures with accompanying snow and ice I decided to start 2011 with this rather marvellous image taken by a pylon fan very close to Radley, a few miles outside Oxford. I like it on a purely…
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