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Melbourne stanchions and overhead line electrification

Overhead wires used to supply power to electric trains

Hangers in place for an additional traction power feeder above Flinders Street platform 6

Tuesday 30 January 2024 1:54 PM
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Grounding jumper wire between rails and stanchion at Moonee Ponds

Tuesday 30 January 2024 12:22 PM
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(1 time this week, 2 times this month, 13 times this year)

'Shut off' board for electric train drivers departing Elsternwick station on the up

Indicating to shut off power at this point and coast to the next station

Saturday 21 October 2023 5:39 PM
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(2 times this month, 38 times this year)

Freshly repainted overhead stanchion base

Wednesday 1 February 2023 1:36 PM
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(1 time this month, 5 times this year)

Plastic insulating panels installed around the overhead stanchion and grounding jumper

Monday 9 January 2023 10:27 AM
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Overhead stanchion at Melbourne Yard with a plastic insulating cover

Monday 25 April 2022 11:43 AM
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(1 time this month, 76 times this year)

Overhead wire measurements scrawled onto an overhead stanchion

Thursday 14 April 2022 10:24 AM
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(2 times this month, 91 times this year)

Original style insulators on the overhead wires at the Newport Workshops Garden Platform

Sunday 13 March 2022 12:30 PM
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Steel platforms for operating the overhead sectioning switches at North Melbourne

Thursday 9 December 2021 5:59 PM
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Electrolysis drainage connection to the Sunbury line at Albion

Sunday 5 December 2021 10:17 AM
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Electrolysis drainage connection to the Sunbury line at Albion

Sunday 5 December 2021 9:15 AM
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(2 times this week, 4 times this month, 12 times this year)

Retrofitted galvanised steel leg fitted to a Merz stanchion at Newport

Possibly fitted in 1995 when the standard gauge track was routed through Newport

Sunday 31 October 2021 6:54 PM
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Disused stanchions at Spotwsood for the long removed 22 kV Newport - Sunshine feeder

Sunday 31 October 2021 6:37 PM
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(1 time this month, 15 times this year)

Overhead wires beneath the Cooper Street bridge at Epping

Monday 25 October 2021 10:25 PM
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1920s Merz stanchion at Glenbervie with disused connection to a 22kV underground feeder cable

Saturday 6 March 2021 4:51 PM
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Disused connection to a 22kV underground feeder cable on a 1920s Merz stanchion at Glenbervie

Saturday 6 March 2021 4:50 PM
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Disused connection to a 22kV underground feeder cable on a 1920s Merz stanchion at Glenbervie

Saturday 6 March 2021 4:50 PM
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1920s Merz stanchion at Glenbervie with disused connection to a 22kV underground feeder cable

Saturday 6 March 2021 4:50 PM
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Unused stanchion base between Ringwood platform 2 and 3

Saturday 27 February 2021 10:06 PM
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Traction power feeders pass beneath the overhead concourse at Ringwood station

Saturday 27 February 2021 10:05 PM
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1950s portal structures between Bayswater and Boronia

Tuesday 12 January 2021 2:28 PM
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Signal L1019 for down trains between Bayswater and Boronia

Tuesday 12 January 2021 2:27 PM
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Fresh looking grounding jumper between stanchion and running rails

Tuesday 12 January 2021 1:36 PM
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(1 time this week, 8 times this month, 24 times this year)

Three track portal gantries between Canterbury and Chatham

Tuesday 12 January 2021 11:06 AM
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