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Do you ever get overhead electric catenary in oil terminals?

 

No; as there is a high risk of sparking or high voltage jumping and igniting petrol or any other volatile distillate.  Also, would you walk along the top of a tanker, opening the filler caps knowing there was 25Kv only inches away from your head?

 

Julian Sprott

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There was an article in Rail Express recently I think it was about a terminal on the Wolverhampton-Birmingham line which was briefly electrified as part of the WCML electrification before it was later take out. It sounded like enough was done to allow ac electrics to haul the trains and back them in but not the whole terminal being wired

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