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  1. Welcome to another #RailwaysExplained thread... this one is another port over from the Site We Don't Mention. More to come!

    HOW IT WORKS - TROLLEY OVERHEAD LINE

    Back in 2019 I visited Beamish Museum, and used what I learned there to write about Trolley #OLE for the #OLEbook 6th edition.

    #railways #OLE #OCS #OverheadLine

  2. Another #RailwaysExplained thread... this one is another port over from the Site We Don't Mention. More to come!

    HOW IT WORKS - SPARK GAPS AND SURGE ARRESTERS

    One of the things that I spent a lot of time on back in 2019 was sourcing good quality images for the #OLEbook - getting the more obscure stuff from publicly accessible places was quite hard.

    That's why I had to go all the way to North East England to hunt down this Spark Gap on the Tyne & Wear Metro

    #railways #OLE #OCS #OverheadLine