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I look at others photo’s of overhead gantry or pylon of Electrification and shudder! The cost, The spaghetti looking view that I have never seen for real! Only in others photo’s? My daft imaginings would be of a I,K, Brunel inspired small tube of his Atmospheric system! Secured to the centre of sleepers, For a very slim ‘pick up arm’, Not unlike (but smaller) than the Boeing aircrafts huge engines attachment to its wing! Slim guides for its passing through points systems! For other trains needing to slow for changing directional travel through such points anyway? A tube with a slot on the top to put it simpler! Folk might scoff! But from such daft idea’s then innovation might never be born or created? And don’t forget all gantries will need painting or replacing in years to come? Gantries look awful anyway? Oops, sorry all! But they scoffed at the suggestion of a bit of guttering to get a pushbike up many steps to the other side of a very busy main road! The lands full of innovative idea’s! We cant walk on water yet, But we can but try! Happy ‘xmas’, And try a couple roast parsnip with your roast spuds? Very nice! And how do I reduce my heating costs would be a nice addition to this ‘Infrastructure’ page! (But spose that’s under any other non rail related business)? You seem a knowledgeable crowd that all have Solar panel’s I spose?
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You don’t like modern times do you not Clive
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@Mike_Ashworth, Not really Mike, There’s more history than future on here! But I see a distant change to Electric trains, Road vehicles, Even bikes powered by Solar, Tide or Wind! I wonder what voltage present cables are? Maybe they one day have a 20 mile long lorry lane for heavy goods to raise a glorified radio antenna to an overhead pickup while maintaining a constant 30 MPH? (Charge while you drive)!! (Steam collected water like that years back)! PS, Aldi do a nice Staropramen beer! Quite good for ‘xmas’!
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@nostalgia Trying to guess the future is nearly impossible, with newer technology appearing that surpasses current technologies. When we was in Rotterdam earlier this year we saw a lot of electric buses operating there and when they parked up they would raise a pantograph up onto wires to change up. Your idea of wagons pulling power from overhead head wires as they drive along is already in use in Sweden. In order to increase our usage of electric power the figure given in the budget is way under what is estimated as costing as here in the northwest they have estimated a figure of £6 billion for recabling the area to allow home charging of EV’s. This work would see every road and street dug up and ever building’s power supply replaced.
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