The electricity pole
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The electricity pole by Bob Harvey as part of the Geograph project.
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The electricity pole
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 18 Apr 2021
The pole seen in Image, where an overhead line becomes an underground one. Notice the diagonal backstays to compensate for the one-sided tension in the wires, The two backstays add a small amount of triangulated stability without taking up too much of the narrow, ditch-bounded, verge.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.780419
Longitude
-0.202165