Uttoxeter Station – 14th October 2026
Becuse Uttoxeter station could be on a possible open access service between St. Pancras and Manchester Piccadilly stations, I went and had a look.
My father would have made a comment about Molotov as regards this station.
Molotov had this reputation for always saying no.
This station is rather short in its list of facilities.
- It has no lifts for the footbridge.
- It has no staff.
- There was no obvious information about local transport.
- I saw no details of how to get a taxi.
- There were no litter bins on Platform 1.
I believe this station needs a lot of improvement.
ScottishPower Renewables Completes ‘Record-Breaking’ Cable Landfall Operation For East Anglia Two
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.
This is the sub-heading.
ScottishPower Renewables has completed what the company says was a record-breaking cable landfall operation for its 960 MW East Anglia Two offshore wind farm in the UK, installing two nearly 1.8-kilometre-long ducts beneath the Suffolk coastline and seabed for the project’s export cables
These two paragraphs add more detail.
The ducts, each measuring 800 millimetres in diameter, were installed using horizontal directional drilling (HDD), a technique that creates an underground passage without excavating beaches or disturbing the coastline directly. ScottishPower Renewables says the operation involved the world’s longest continuous single sections of extruded polyethylene (PE) ducts and represents the largest electricity transmission landfall of its kind in the UK, based on the combination of duct length and diameter.
Manufactured by Pipelife in Norway, the ducts were produced as single uninterrupted lengths, eliminating the need for welded joints. They will provide a protected route for the high-voltage export cables carrying electricity from the offshore wind farm to shore.
Note.
- The East Anglia Array, of which East Anglia TWO is part has a Wikipedia entry.
- The landfall for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm is located north of Thorpeness in Suffolk.
Techniques like this will increase the efficiency of building wind farms.
