Wilford Road Feeder Pillar
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The photograph on this page of Wilford Road Feeder Pillar by John Sutton as part of the Geograph project.
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Wilford Road Feeder Pillar
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 20 Jul 2012
Wilford Road is long gone, and so are the Nottingham City Transport electric trams and later trolleybuses supplied with 550V DC current from this feeder pillar. Power was generated by the Nottingham Corporation Electricity Department at its power stations and high-voltage AC current carried by underground cable to sub-stations where it was converted to DC; that current was then taken through these feeders (there were many around the city) to the overhead trolley wires. (Source of information: "Nottingham Trolleybuses" by David R H Bowler; Trolley Books, 2006.) The new NET tram route to Chilwell will pass this interesting survival on Meadows Way - perhaps it could be preserved as a reminder of earlier forms of electric transport in Nottingham.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.944918
Longitude
-1.153047