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National Grid's new designer pylon is 'too white and boring' – Pylon Appreciation Society

Jim 59

The old tower looks like a very strong structure. The new one looks like a weak structure, and the cables seem to be much closer together. They've done all the tests, right ? Remember that Open University programme where they built some towers in a quarry then chopped a wire to see how they would withstand big twisting forces ? They they used a machine to pull one cable until a tower fractured ?

They've done all that right ?

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