Distance between Extra high voltage transmission lines and residential buildings

Have a look at 53.189425 -3.045233 on Google Earth. Better still use Street View.  That is close.


The pylon and others on that route are sited on a disused track bed of a mineral railway between Queensferry (in Flintshire) and what I believe was the site of Hawarden Electric, a coal fired power station pre WW2. Now the site of a 132/33 kV substation. Apparently the track bed was purchased in the mid-1950s by MANWEB (now part of Scottish Power. An easy way to obtain a wayleave?


I have never found much out about it being a power station, but one of their customers during WW2 was the Tube Alloys Project and according to their supply plans was supplied at 3.3 kV, which for the distance 10 km as the crow flies, was perhaps a little on the low side?  (Besides the Tube Alloys Project, the site was also used for the production of Mustard Gas).


Clive

Have a look at 53.189425 -3.045233 on Google Earth. Better still use Street View.  That is close.


The pylon and others on that route are sited on a disused track bed of a mineral railway between Queensferry (in Flintshire) and what I believe was the site of Hawarden Electric, a coal fired power station pre WW2. Now the site of a 132/33 kV substation. Apparently the track bed was purchased in the mid-1950s by MANWEB (now part of Scottish Power. An easy way to obtain a wayleave?


I have never found much out about it being a power station, but one of their customers during WW2 was the Tube Alloys Project and according to their supply plans was supplied at 3.3 kV, which for the distance 10 km as the crow flies, was perhaps a little on the low side?  (Besides the Tube Alloys Project, the site was also used for the production of Mustard Gas).


Clive