kesterlester
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Dear Forum,
This is a request for pointers to rail cab footage (or similar) about 1.3 km SW of Leuchars -- footage that I hope might help me to identify some infrastructure on Fife.
More details below!
There is a large gas pipe (called "Feeder 13") which transfers gas between refineries on the east-coast of Scotland and refineries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It crosses both the Firth of Fourth (near North Berwick) and the River Tay (near Dundee). Between those sea crossings it traverses Fife (should I say the Fife Peninsula?) almost entirely underground. At some point in Fife it goes under the railway line that runs between Leuchars and Cupar. I believe the pipe crossing is approximately 1.3km SW of Leuchars railway station, and is within about 150m of the point I have labelled "A" on the attached image. I am interested to learn more about (a) precisely where the pipe crosses this railway line, and more specifically (b) how it crosses the east-west running river/stream which is about 200m north of the railway.
Quite frequently rivers/streams of the size of the one noted are crossed by pipes below the surface of the water (in fact even under the bed of the stream). However sometimes such rivers/streams are crossed by over-head pipes ... either using very solid self-supporting pipes on piers, or else using non-structural pipes supported on a truss/bridge structure.
In an aerial photo I have seen a tantalising suggestion of such an overhead pipe structure at the point I have marked "B" on the attached image, suggesting that PERHAPS Feeder 13 crosses that river overhead at that point. However, the resolution is no-where near good enough to confirm that's what I'm looking at, and so it's also possible it's a red-herring and the crossing is underwater somewhere else within ~500m of point B.
Hence I would be interested to hear if anyone can point me toward a section of cab-footage or similar (perhaps on youtube) which shows this region from a train . It is possible that such footage would capture the red/white utility marker posts which are often placed at field boundaries to help farmers avoid damaging buried pipes when working fields ... and such footage could also potentially catch a glimpse of the pipe crossing the river through a gap in the trees, if that's what it does.
It's much too far away from where I live to pop out and take a photo myself!
C
PS - before posting I did already try to find cab footage of this section of line on youtube. But either there is none or my search skills are not up to the task. I suspect the latter is more likely!
This is a request for pointers to rail cab footage (or similar) about 1.3 km SW of Leuchars -- footage that I hope might help me to identify some infrastructure on Fife.
More details below!
There is a large gas pipe (called "Feeder 13") which transfers gas between refineries on the east-coast of Scotland and refineries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It crosses both the Firth of Fourth (near North Berwick) and the River Tay (near Dundee). Between those sea crossings it traverses Fife (should I say the Fife Peninsula?) almost entirely underground. At some point in Fife it goes under the railway line that runs between Leuchars and Cupar. I believe the pipe crossing is approximately 1.3km SW of Leuchars railway station, and is within about 150m of the point I have labelled "A" on the attached image. I am interested to learn more about (a) precisely where the pipe crosses this railway line, and more specifically (b) how it crosses the east-west running river/stream which is about 200m north of the railway.
Quite frequently rivers/streams of the size of the one noted are crossed by pipes below the surface of the water (in fact even under the bed of the stream). However sometimes such rivers/streams are crossed by over-head pipes ... either using very solid self-supporting pipes on piers, or else using non-structural pipes supported on a truss/bridge structure.
In an aerial photo I have seen a tantalising suggestion of such an overhead pipe structure at the point I have marked "B" on the attached image, suggesting that PERHAPS Feeder 13 crosses that river overhead at that point. However, the resolution is no-where near good enough to confirm that's what I'm looking at, and so it's also possible it's a red-herring and the crossing is underwater somewhere else within ~500m of point B.
Hence I would be interested to hear if anyone can point me toward a section of cab-footage or similar (perhaps on youtube) which shows this region from a train . It is possible that such footage would capture the red/white utility marker posts which are often placed at field boundaries to help farmers avoid damaging buried pipes when working fields ... and such footage could also potentially catch a glimpse of the pipe crossing the river through a gap in the trees, if that's what it does.
It's much too far away from where I live to pop out and take a photo myself!
C
PS - before posting I did already try to find cab footage of this section of line on youtube. But either there is none or my search skills are not up to the task. I suspect the latter is more likely!
However there does seem to be a ‘shadow’ in the field south of the railway on Google satellite view that corresponds to the 45° kink in the line that puts the pipe roughly perpendicular to the railway?