Re: Near miss at Victoria (London)

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"David Johnson"
> Tezza wrote:
> > "Chris Downs"
> > > In Sydney (and elsewhere) I thought the "air gap" was the space between
the
> > > two sets of overhead at an overhead anchorage/transition point on main
> > lines, The other type of section was initially provided by
"continuous-feed
> > > wood-break section insulators" (the diamond shaped overhead
arrangements).
> >
> > The air-gap and section insulators are the same thing.
>
> Whilst the driver's vocabulary puts them all down as the same thing, they
are
> not.
>
> Air Gaps are where one wire ends and another starts.
>
> Section Insulators are the big spiders holding the contact wire together. :)

Drivers refer to them both as air gaps.