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You can include L12s as well! I do wonder if anything was proposed there though?

These are the same ones! It is really strange though

Something odd: JL EVE L6DTs all in arrangement for a substation which doesn’t exist

I’m pretty sure the grille is the same as the one on Hornby’s Mk3 DVT, so you could use that?

Ahh don’t worry, even I get the terminology wrong sometimes. It is very odd though, maybe there was some extra weight needed for the tower

They look like extra supports for the base of the tower. As normally the concrete wouldn't go that far up iirc.

It is indeed strange, I have just been looking at some old maps and even they aren't sure of the alignments. 1960s maps show a different layout to the 1970s, and it's the same with the early 80s too. Then it changes to how the pylons are currently arranged.

Here is some modified Blaw Knox PL16 D60 plans into what appears to be a D40EC. Situated on the Bramford-Ipswich line where it duals.

Ahhh ok! I’m looking forward to these!

Some nice gems here, a form of L2 river crossing towers with quad conductor like bundles! They are on the BB L6/L2 Exeter-Indian Queens line

Not too bad then! Are there any plans for them?

They look like small PL16s!! I wonder if they the design was based off them? These would be a nice size for a model railway.

The last one reminds me of a PL16 DD2. I wonder what it looks like built up?

That's the sort of thing my cat would do as well! That model appears to be the Scalelink one

Gotta love the D90s!!! However the first on is strange though as it only appears to be acting as a D30. It’s the last tower on the line before the DT’s at Nursling substation iirc. I also have some photos of a D90 on the Bramford-Norwich line.

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Here’s a few pictures of the upgrade, I had a very poor quality camera with me so forgive the poorness of them (it was also getting very dark too). I have also added some screenshots of the substation from google maps too

To be honest I don’t really know. The first lot came when Sizewell B opened as the line was extended further to a new substation and the DT’s were turned into D10’s, then followed by L6M D30’s and then L12 DT’s. At this point the line was modified so the D2’s has their double insulator bundles replaced and the quad bundles on the deviation towers replaced into double bundles, yet still carry a quad line. My only guess is that the towers from this line leading into Bramford were replaced as well. I then visited the substation in 2011 and major work was going on there. A BB L6 D60 was being replaced by an L12 DT acting as a D90 and the EVE L6 DT was also replaced with an L12 DT. Then the BICC L6 line got the treatment and the DT for that line was replaced too as an L12. I remember looking down the A14 towards the substation after the work was done and thinking the substation looked different, and I was right! So when the substation was first built it had 6 L6 DTs. 3 BB, 2 BICC and one EVE. Now there’s only 2 left. 1 BICC and 1 BB. The BICC DT oddly feeds an L4M DT which then becomes a PL16 line. I have a photo of the new L12 DT/D90 being strung somewhere, I’ll find it and share it.

I wonder of the last photo of of the substation at Bramford being as it mentions the Sizewell-Sundon route. If so then that could be the last BB L6 DT that remains there or it's one of the towers that has been replaced by L12's (nearly all the terminal towers at the substation are now L12s)

Looks like the Beauly-Denny hybrid L12 line didn't just bring us these odd L12's, it also brought us the first L6M D40EC!

That’s what I thought too. I did find it nice to see an L3 D60 and an L2 D60 right next to each other on the same line! all the best, Matthew

I’m pretty sure they are both acting as D90s. I will have a look though. all the best, Matthew

Another odd find: Just north of York an L2 D60 is acting as a D90 on a L3C line