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Sources for British power line information

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Where publicly available at the time of reading (for free or for a cost), these documents are linked below. Documents that were freely available that are discovered to have disappeared (link rot) will be archived here. Documents below with no link were not publicly available and are listed simply to provide the details for the source.

Development Near Lines
National Grid: Development Near Lines (Planning & amenity aspects of high voltage transmission lines and substations), revised July 2008
EuropeAid 114479
Invitation to Tender no. EuropeAid/114479/D/S/SL, Emergency Rehabilitation of Transmission & Distribution Network
NSP/004/030
NSP/004/030 - Specification for the construction and refurbishment of 33-132kV tower lines, Northern Powergrid
SWS Forum 08/06/2017
South West Scotland Forum, 8th June 2017 (contains conductor information and a traceable location of L132)
Uprating of Overhead Lines
Uprating of Overhead Lines, Roshan Bhattarai B.E. M.Tech., Cardiff University PhD thesis, 2011 (includes tower design designations for L132, L2, L3, L4 and L7 giving the conductor and earthwire types)