A different take on the landscape this morning. A wooden pylon holding a corner in a medium voltage transmission line
The same pylon taken only a few minutes later but this time from the other side against the sunlit sky
From the corner the pylons march across the meadow to the river
Are they supplying electricity to a farm on the other side of the river? Perhaps not, or is it the other side that is unpowered? Or are they both powered? But at least there is no flow of energy through the line at this point
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@Lostpoet Weird? Why's it weird? It looks like it might be capable of being remotely occupied because below the breakers there is a box with an antenna. I've never looked closely at it before so I don't know if the two segments are ever connected.
@Lostpoet I imagine that they were in use at one time. Perhaps new lines elsewhere rendered them unnecessary. Leaving them in place but with remotely operated switches might make the network more resilient because they might be able to be used as a route around a failure. But it's not a very high capacity line. It's only a few kilovolts so it won't be capable of transmiting much power, so I'm rather uncertain about that.
Edit 19:47 I've just looked up the type of poles. It's probably an 11 kV line.
