Re: Near miss at Victoria (London)

[jjjim <jjjim@bigpond.com>]

Well ill stick to air gap then :)

David Johnson wrote:

> Tezza wrote:
>
> > "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > lS866.170$Ll4.8153@ozemail.com.au">news:lS866.170$Ll4.8153@ozemail.com.au...
> > > 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. :)
>
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> David Johnson
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