https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/10/londons-pylons.html [jd] jack of diamonds Life viewed from London E3 diamond geezer >> email me Saturday, October 22, 2022 >> follow me on twitter >> follow the blog on Sometimes the best questions come Twitter while waiting for a train. >> follow the blog on RSS In this case Royal Victoria station on the DLR. >> my flickr photostream I looked down the platform and I thought... twenty blogs 853 [roylvic] our bow arseblog Where else in London are there ian visits pylons? londonist blue witch They're not common in the capital, on london even round the edges. Most suburban the great wen skylines are entirely pylon-free in edith's streets all directions. And yet in a few spitalfields life places pylons are an intrinsic part linkmachinego of the landscape, like here along round the island the edge of the Royal Docks. These wanstead meteo pylons were added when this was a christopher fowler commercial zone and the Thames was a bus and train user great place to hide unwanted ruth's coastal walk infrastructure, but now they stride the ladies who bus through housing estates. So where round the rails we go exactly are the rest? london reconnections from the murky depths So I Googled. quick reference features From the Mayor's website I learned Things to do in Outer "London's electricity comes from the London electricity grid. Power in this grid Things to do outside London is generated in large power stations Inner London toilet map outside of London." Hence the need 20 years of blog series for pylons. The DG Tour of Britain From the Metadyne website I learned read the archive "In order to get the electricity to Oct22 Sep22 customers the national grid (now run Aug22 Jul22 Jun22 May22 by National Grid plc) transmits Apr22 Mar22 Feb22 Jan22 electricity across the country in Dec21 Nov21 Oct21 Sep21 bulk at extra high voltage, the more Aug21 Jul21 Jun21 May21 so to the London area where there is Apr21 Mar21 Feb21 Jan21 little generation any longer. The Dec20 Nov20 Oct20 Sep20 network distribution operator (UK Aug20 Jul20 Jun20 May20 Power Networks in London's case) Apr20 Mar20 Feb20 Jan20 collects electricity at transfer Dec19 Nov19 Oct19 Sep19 substations and conveys it to Aug19 Jul19 Jun19 May19 distribution substations around the Apr19 Mar19 Feb19 Jan19 city, then local substations and Dec18 Nov18 Oct18 Sep18 finally at the standard 240 volts to Aug18 Jul18 Jun18 May18 the street mains and end users." Apr18 Mar18 Feb18 Jan18 Dec17 Nov17 Oct17 Sep17 From Wikipedia I learned that London Aug17 Jul17 Jun17 May17 has 400kV substations at Barking, Apr17 Mar17 Feb17 Jan17 Beddington, City Road, Crayford, Dec16 Nov16 Oct16 Sep16 Hackney, Highbury, Hurst, Kensal Aug16 Jul16 Jun16 May16 Green, New Cross, Pudding Mill Lane, Apr16 Mar16 Feb16 Jan16 Rowdown, St John's Wood, Seven Dec15 Nov15 Oct15 Sep15 Sisters Road, West Ham, Willesden Aug15 Jul15 Jun15 May15 and Wimbledon (and nearly in London Apr15 Mar15 Feb15 Jan15 at Elstree, Iver and Waltham Cross). Dec14 Nov14 Oct14 Sep14 There are also 275kV substations at Aug14 Jul14 Jun14 May14 Brimsdown, Chessington, Ealing, Mill Apr14 Mar14 Feb14 Jan14 Hill, New Hyde, Redbridge, Tottenham Dec13 Nov13 Oct13 Sep13 and Warley. However not all of these Aug13 Jul13 Jun13 May13 use pylons, some feed underground Apr13 Mar13 Feb13 Jan13 cables. Dec12 Nov12 Oct12 Sep12 Aug12 Jul12 Jun12 May12 From an East Anglian consultation Apr12 Mar12 Feb12 Jan12 document I found this map. Dec11 Nov11 Oct11 Sep11 Aug11 Jul11 Jun11 May11 [loncables] Apr11 Mar11 Feb11 Jan11 Dec10 Nov10 Oct10 Sep10 Blue and red are for overhead lines, Aug10 Jul10 Jun10 May10 i.e. pylons. Blue is 400kV and red Apr10 Mar10 Feb10 Jan10 is 275kV. You can see a ring of red Dec09 Nov09 Oct09 Sep09 and blue around the edge of London, Aug09 Jul09 Jun09 May09 like the M25 of electricity Apr09 Mar09 Feb09 Jan09 distribution. Meanwhile green is for Dec08 Nov08 Oct08 Sep08 underground cables. Almost all of Aug08 Jul08 Jun08 May08 the connections in inner London are Apr08 Mar08 Feb08 Jan08 green. So now we know where the Dec07 Nov07 Oct07 Sep07 pylons are, but only roughly. Aug07 Jul07 Jun07 May07 Apr07 Mar07 Feb07 Jan07 And then I discovered Open Dec06 Nov06 Oct06 Sep06 Infrastructure Map. It's a version Aug06 Jul06 Jun06 May06 of Open Street Map but it shows Apr06 Mar06 Feb06 Jan06 where all the electrical power lines Dec05 Nov05 Oct05 Sep05 are wherever you live, be that Aug05 Jul05 Jun05 May05 Cheshire, Denmark, India or New Apr05 Mar05 Feb05 Jan05 Zealand. Solid lines are overhead, Dec04 Nov04 Oct04 Sep04 dashed lines are underground. This Aug04 Jul04 Jun04 May04 brilliant map allows me to check for Apr04 Mar04 Feb04 Jan04 overhead transmission lines in full Dec03 Nov03 Oct03 Sep03 zoomable detail, and indeed allows Aug03 Jul03 Jun03 May03 you too, so I could stop there, Apr03 Mar03 Feb03 Jan03 problem solved. Dec02 Nov02 Oct02 Sep02 back to main page But the map doesn't have the Greater London boundary on it, so checking the diamond geezer index precisely what's in and what's out 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 was tricky. So I turned to an 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Ordnance Survey map instead and 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 scoured that for pylon symbols to 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 see precisely where they go. And then I made this deliberately poor my special London features sketch map to summarise where a-z of london museums London's pylons are. E3 - local history month greenwich meridian (N) [lonpylo] greenwich meridian (S) the real eastenders The pylons in my original photo are london's lost rivers part of a chain along the Thames olympic park 2007 from Tilbury to Canning Town via great british roads Barking, which then heads up the oranges & lemons River Lea to West Ham (by Star Lane random boroughs station). These pylons used to go bow road station further but remediation for the high street 2012 Olympics buried the section from river westbourne West Ham to Hackney Marshes trafalgar square underground. That improved the Games capital numbers no end. The rest of the Lea Valley east london line pylons, through Tottenham, Enfield lea valley walk and Waltham Cross, remain above olympics 2005 ground. A separate chain of pylons regent's canal runs up the River Roding from square routes Barking to Redbridge. silver jubilee unlost rivers Most of the pylons looping around cube routes London lie just beyond the Greater Herbert Dip London boundary. You can see how the metro-land ring grazes the boundary to the capital ring northwest, especially round Uxbridge river fleet and Harefield, with deliberate piccadilly incursions to Harrow and Mill Hill. bakerloo Out east a lot of pylons feed into Warley substation, one of the few ten of my favourite posts points of interest in the small the seven ages of blog London bulge beyond the M25. But in my new Z470xi mobile south London the orbiting pylons five equations of blog nudge much closer in a long line the dome of doom from Chessington to Chelsfield (with chemical attraction a spur to Wimbledon and a brief quality & risk underground gap from Beddington to london 2102 New Addington). Bexley gets a bonus single life stripe from Falconwood to Crayford. boredom april fool So that's where London's pylons are. 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