Short dropper wire suspends the grooved contact wire from the stranded copper catenary wire
Saturday 7 July 2012 4:05 PMViewed 3315 times
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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.
Saturday 7 July 2012 4:04 PMViewed 1995 times
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Clamp that attaches the vertical dropper wire to the stranded copper catenary wire
Saturday 7 July 2012 4:04 PMViewed 2361 times
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Overhead cables grounded for safety during trackwork
Saturday 7 July 2012 3:38 PMViewed 1059 times, 0 times this year)
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
Sunday 25 March 2012 11:08 AMViewed 1929 times
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Overhead stanchions at the up end of the former Malvern goods yard
Sunday 5 February 2012 6:37 PMViewed 1290 times, 0 times this year)
Razor wire preventing people from climbing up a lattice stanchion
Sunday 18 September 2011 2:55 PMViewed 378 times
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1920s single arm Merz stanchion at Middle Footscray
Sunday 18 September 2011 2:55 PMViewed 1921 times
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Runway lights and low profile stanchions at the south end of the former RAAF Williams runway
Sunday 11 September 2011 4:20 PMViewed 1530 times
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Runway lights and low profile stanchions at the south end of the former RAAF Williams runway
Sunday 11 September 2011 4:20 PMViewed 1235 times
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Stub of the original overhead stanchion peeks above the platform veranda at Flinders Street Station
Monday 9 August 2010 11:03 AMViewed 338 times
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'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
Thursday 11 March 2010 1:13 PMViewed 1236 times, 2 times this year)
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
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1950s era portal structures supporting the overhead on the Gippsland line at Beaconsfield
Saturday 9 August 2008 4:03 PMViewed 940 times, 9 times this year)
Overhead tensioning structure on the down side of Seddon on the Werribee line
Friday 25 April 2008 2:50 PMViewed 1367 times
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Brand new overhead above the Spencer Street goods lines: still copper coloured
Thursday 9 June 2005 1:04 PMViewed 1371 times
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Brand new overhead above the Spencer Street goods lines: still copper coloured
Thursday 9 June 2005 1:02 PMViewed 1539 times
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