25/6.25 kV electrification removed

[MadMac]

As we’re having a discussion on third rail, what OHL has been removed? Here’s a few starters:

Dalreoch-Balloch Central - singled (equipment reused on Lanark branch)
Craigendoran-Helensburgh Central - singled
High Street-Bridgeton Central - line closed
Balloch Central-Balloch Pier - line closed
Craigendoran - pier platforms closed
Singer - workers’ platforms closed
Helensburgh Central - one platform closed
Westerton-Milngavie - partially singled
Milngavie - one platform closed
Hyndland Depot - closed
Wemyss Bay - one platform closed
Gourock - one platform closed?
Carlisle Goods Lines - closed after bridge destroyed by derailment

Any others?

 

[londonmidland]

Bescot TMD has had all of its electrification removed bar one of the outer lines. I believe person(s) who was trespassing in the yard and climbed onto a train wagon got electrocuted and subsequently won a case, which long story short caused DB to cough up £1.2m.

 

[Liam L]

Also a section between Duddeston and Aston too… with the disused tracks next to the current running lines.

 

[brad465]

I believe Hoo Junction yard had some primitive OHLE system decades ago for some early locos that operated in it, but more powerful diesel locos since made it redundant. Happy to be corrected if this never happened and/or thinking of the wrong yard.

 

[plugwash]

I don't know if you would count it was "removed" but AIUI the electrification on the Manchester to Altrincam line was reduced from 25KV AC to 750V DC when the line was converted to metrolink.

 

[snowball]

I don't know if you would count it was "removed" but AIUI the electrification on the Manchester to Altrincam line was reduced from 25KV AC to 750V DC when the line was converted to metrolink.

Having previously been increased from 1500V DC.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

There used to be an isolated run of single track OHLE on one track in the middle of Healey Mills yard, but I don't think it was ever energised so maybe it doesn't count. Can't recall where I heard this but it was apparently there for training purposes.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The crossover 3.9 miles north of Preston on the WCML just before the Barton loop has been removed and the OHLE along with it and an extra wicket keeper foundation and mast installed.

 

[Agent_Squash]

Morecambe - Heysham.

 

[jp4712]

Hadfield - Sheffield/Tinsley/Wath
Harton colliery lines
Kearsley power station complex
Strictly speaking, Bury - Holcombe Brook which was experimentally fitted with OHE before conversion to third rail (and closed completely in 1951)

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

There are extensive de-wired gantries all over the 1960s WCML electrification, in sidings and yards.
Plenty of it around Edge Hill, for instance, and places like Crewe and Willesden.

Another area is around Ardwick-Guide Bridge where the former 4-track Woodhead route gantries are still there, but only carry wires for the remaining two tracks.

 

[A0wen]

The LBSC overhead electrification around South London which was replaced with 3rd rail by the Southern.

Farringdon - Moorgate widened lines which closed as part of Thameslink.

St Pancras was wired, then at some point in the 90s the wires were removed from Kentish Town to St P, only for them to be reinstated when St Pancras was rebuilt.

From another thread, part of the Rugby - Harborough line which had been wired to allow access to Rugby depot.

 

[stuu]

The inner London suburban lines of the LBSCR were electrified at 6.7kV AC and replaced with 650V DC

 

[Albaman]

1. A siding adjacent to the up platform at Berwick upon Tweed. ( Why this very short siding was wired has always been a mystery to me .)

2. Rugby to Clifton Mill on the now closed line to Market Harborough.

3. The two " Bothwell Branch " sidings at Shettleston.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Folly Lane branch, Runcorn.

I used to drive underneath it on a very regular basis in the early/mid 90’s.

 

[Pit_buzzer]

Wakefield car terminal

Doncaster Hexthorpe electrification depot, the construction wagons and a length of overhead sat decaying for years after completion of the Aire Valley electrification. Finally cleared when Roberts Rd depot was created

 

[fgwrich]

Kings Cross platform 10? OHLE removed during the rebuild when the platform was taken out of use.

 

[gg1]

Some more in the West Midlands:
Windsor Street goods - closed entirely in the 70s
Albion oil terminal - de-electrified in the late 70s/early 80s the terminal itself closed in the 90s (I think)
Wolverhampton Steel terminal - line is still open but de-electrified in the late 80s/90s

 

[youngpete]

Newport Shildon of the North Eastern Railway

 

[eastwestdivide]

I believe Hoo Junction yard had some primitive OHLE system decades ago for some early locos that operated in it, but more powerful diesel locos since made it redundant. Happy to be corrected if this never happened and/or thinking of the wrong yard.

Many SR yards had this, used by the Class 71 locos and the very few earlier SR electric locos. Avoided the obvious danger of third rail in shunting yards. The later electro-diesels (73 and 74) kind of made it redundant. The posts but not the wires were still there at least at Hoo Jn in the early 80s.

 

[Alfie1014]

Tilbury Riverside and associated sidings including both east and west chords.
Southend East (parcels depot)
Southend Central platforms 5 & 6.
Dagenham Dock Up sidings (lost for HS1 works).
Thornton Fields carriage sidings.
Stratford Old Yard.

 

[billh]

Another area is around Ardwick-Guide Bridge where the former 4-track Woodhead route gantries are still there, but only carry wires for the remaining two tracks.

The disused goods/slow lines were never 25/6.25kV AC, only 1.5kVDC. Just going by the thread title

 

[John Webb]

Many SR yards had this, used by the Class 71 locos and the very few earlier SR electric locos. Avoided the obvious danger of third rail in shunting yards. The later electro-diesels (73 and 74) kind of made it redundant. The posts but not the wires were still there at least at Hoo Jn in the early 80s.

Another example is the Angerstein Wharf branch at Charlton - 3rd rail off the 'main line' to start with and then OLE over a couple of lines forming a 'run-round' loop. All done by diesels now.

 

[geoffk]

The crossover 3.9 miles north of Preston on the WCML just before the Barton loop has been removed and the OHLE along with it and an extra wicket keeper foundation and mast installed.

An extra wicket keeper? Sorry, that's just not cricket....

 

[Dunfanaghy Rd]

Bescot TMD has had all of its electrification removed bar one of the outer lines. I believe person(s) who was trespassing in the yard and climbed onto a train wagon got electrocuted and subsequently won a case, which long story short caused DB to cough up £1.2m.

Are you referring to the Allerton fatality, or was Bescot another one?
(As an aside, the manager responsible for Allerton was kept on ice afterwards by being sent to Eastleigh. In 2 years I never saw or heard him. After the court case he was given his dismissal on the way out of the court. He declined the severance offer, went to a tribunal and lost. Greatly to the joy of the other managers - "Xxx Xxx lost. He's got nothing!" was the reaction of one of them.)
Pat

 

[Dr Hoo]

There was indeed an ORR prosecution in January 2020 relating to an electrocution at Bescot in June 2017.

 

[geoffk]

As we’re having a discussion on third rail, what OHL has been removed? Here’s a few starters:


Any others?

Graham Road curve (Hackney).

 

[59CosG95]

Holbeck Viaduct in Leeds is another; AIUI it was briefly used in the late 80s/early 90s to stable IC225 sets prior to the electrification of Neville Hill. It was dewired and the track lifted after NL went live.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The crossover 3.9 miles north of Preston on the WCML just before the Barton loop has been removed and the OHLE along with it and an extra wicket keeper foundation and mast installed.

An extra wicket keeper? Sorry, that's just not cricket....

This is what I am talking about. You can see the 1973-74 old fashioned concrete foundations and gantry. The wicket keeper is newer galv and a piled base.

 

[59CosG95]

In the Peterborough area - the previously electrified two-way goods on the west of the station was de-electrified when Platforms 6 & 7 were added. Ditto the crossover from the Dn Slow to the Fly Ash sidings (between P5 and the old Two-Way goods).

A tension length's worth of Mk3B OLE on the Dn Stamford was removed as part of the Werrington Dive-Under project, and replaced with 1.5 tension length's worth of UKMS equipment (which has a shorter maximum tension length).