I drive past these towers every week and had often thought about climbing one, I decided that one of these would make a nice school night solo. My original choice of tower was a no-go, there was just too many people knocking about, so I headed for my "back-up" tower. This tower is one on the very fringe of the marshalling yard that these towers illuminate. As sod's law would have it this particular tower had a 6600 volt sub-station sat underneath it. Undeterred I quickly surmounted the fence and began to climb. Something I didn't realise whilst climbing the ladders up was that the tower is swaying in the wind, it wasn't until I reached the platform at the top that I felt it.
There isn't many pictures as there wasn't really much to see from that tower but also the lights were in the way of most things and getting a tripod to stand up on open mesh decking is pretty hard going.
There isn't many pictures as there wasn't really much to see from that tower but also the lights were in the way of most things and getting a tripod to stand up on open mesh decking is pretty hard going.
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