ACROSS THE THAMES

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1932, Page 7

ACROSS THE THAMES

TRANSMISSION LINES )

CABLES ON LOFTY TOWERS

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, 17th September,

Six high-pressure transmission wires, which, together with an earthed conductor for the protection of the others against lightning, are now to be pnt in position across the Thames Estuary,' mark an important stage in the development of the national electricity scheme. They will connect the main lines in the east with, those south of the Thames, in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. The primary function of the six conductors "will be to convey current from the huge power station at Barking) T on the north side of the Thames, to T a switching station, whence it will.beifed to the south-eastern counties. tThe steel towers, between which 1000-yards-long conductors will stretch across-the ■river from Dag-enham, in Essex,- to Crosness, in. Kent, are 487 feet high, but in the centre" of the span the conductors, each weighing 20 tons, will dip to a 1 height of about 250 feet above high water mark, high; above'the,masts of the tallest "ship. >■. '