Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
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June slipped by in a blur of busyness and with the end of July in sight, a pylon is most definitely needed. This beauty was snapped by a colleague whilst travelling through Jutland in Denmark. I’ve never been there, although in a previous life whilst at the Army Staff College, I did have to study…
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With only a couple of days left this month, I’ve finally got around to selecting a pylon for May, and it’s a small but beautiful asymmetric terminator pylon that got my vote! It was sent in by a fan of the blog who featured previously with a pylon from Cadiz in January 2024. This one…
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April’s Pylon of the Month comes from Morocco, the first time this country has featured on the blog. I took the picture on a recent holiday and in the background you can see the beautiful city of Chefchaouen, the Blue City. You can easily find the pylons by following the path from the city up…
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March’s Pylon of the Month is completely different to anything that has featured on the blog before and features Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, which drew attention to Puerto Rico’s power grid. According to Scientific American: Dancing linemen who dangled from power poles during the Super Bowl halftime show by Puerto Rican singer Bad…
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February’s Pylon of the Month comes from County Wicklow in Ireland and was sent in by a follower of the blog – thank you! It is certainly the first time a pylon from Wicklow has featured and might even be the first pylon from the south of Ireland. It can be found alongside St. Kevin’s…
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Welcome back – after a few months of suspended animation following the shutdown of Typepad, I’ve finally got around to bringing Pylon of the Month back to life on WordPress! Most of the previous posts seem to have survived the migration, although a few images from earlier years are no longer there. We start 2026…
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August's Pylon of the Month is one that was sent in by a fan via the blog last year and I've finally got around to using it! I'm going for the one on the right with the mobile phone antennae attached but if you prefer one of the others, then feel free to choose differently.…
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There have been higher quality photographs on Pylon of the Month, but July's pylon was snapped out of a train window over Easter and there is always room on the blog for these serendipitous sightings. The train in question was from Naples and this pylon is therefore in the shadow of Vesuvius because I was…
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May's Pylon of the Month is another sent in by a fan of the website. He became a fan when his Physics teacher introduced the class to the blog in a lesson so it's good to know that it is being used out there in the world! Anyway, this pylon is from just outside Leeds…
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After a pylonless March, April's Pylon of the Month was sent in by a fan of the blog and comes from the grounds of Painshill in Surrey, a place I'd never heard of before, but it looks well worth a visit. The gardens were designed by The Hon. Charles Hamilton after his return from the…