Wongm's Rail Gallery

Short dropper wire suspends the grooved contact wire from the stranded copper catenary wire

Clamp that suspends the solid copper contact wire from the vertical dropper wire

The contact wire is the level wire on the bottom, which the pantograph runs along. It has a groove either side, that the clamp grabs onto.

Clamp that attaches the vertical dropper wire to the stranded copper catenary wire

Overhead cables grounded for safety during trackwork

Centrally located stanchions on the Upfield line between Batman and Merlynston‎ stations

Uncommon in Melbourne, this arrangement was a result of track duplication works in 1959, when a new up track was added to the left of the original line

Overhead stanchions at the up end of the former Malvern goods yard

Razor wire preventing people from climbing up a lattice stanchion

1920s single arm Merz stanchion at Middle Footscray

Runway lights and low profile stanchions at the south end of the former RAAF Williams runway

Runway lights and low profile stanchions at the south end of the former RAAF Williams runway

Stub of the original overhead stanchion peeks above the platform veranda at Flinders Street Station

'VR Electrolysis' box affixed to a power pole in suburban Collingwood

Part of the stray current protection system for buried pipes and cables, it helps prevent traction return currents from taking the shortest path back to the railway substation

Merz stanchion at Newport recently modified to be further away from the tracks

A graffiti vandal hanging out of a Hitachi window was decapitated by it back in February 2009:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/train-skylarker-seriously-injured/story-e6frf7jo-1111118974577

1950s era portal structures supporting the overhead on the Gippsland line at Beaconsfield

Overhead tensioning structure on the down side of Seddon on the Werribee line

Brand new overhead above the Spencer Street goods lines: still copper coloured

Brand new overhead above the Spencer Street goods lines: still copper coloured