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Red alerts for much of UK.

broadgage

Met office red alert for extreme heat has been issued for London and for parts of the Midlands. This is the first ever met office red warning for heat.

Government red warnings for heat health alert now cover all of England. I think that this may be the first such alert, it is undoubtedly the first ever to affect all of England.

Are significant consequences expected for electricity generation and distribution ?

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  • there may be an element of over reacting in the UK, but also under design., but the overhead line problem for our railways is that they expand and drop, and then snag and we have seen them occasionally get ripped out by the passing  train. diesels may not solve that. More frequent tension points would, but is not quick.

    mike.

  • in reply to mapj1

    Network rail seem to suggest that some of the overheads already have some form of autotensioning on more recently electrified lines (I have no idea about railways but wonder if it's to do with those stacks of concrete slabs hanging on line-ends running over pulleys at some of the stations near me) and it's the older overheads that are more affected.

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  • in reply to mapj1

    Network rail seem to suggest that some of the overheads already have some form of autotensioning on more recently electrified lines (I have no idea about railways but wonder if it's to do with those stacks of concrete slabs hanging on line-ends running over pulleys at some of the stations near me) and it's the older overheads that are more affected.

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