overhead wires

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These include more than 120 trees on tracks, damaged overhead wires, power supply failures and other objects and debris blown onto the line.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

Battery-powered trains would save rail operators the cost of installing overhead wires on unelectrified tracks, which are found throughout the UK.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

The new line will replace Metro Route 70 and will be the first RapidRide route to operate as a trolley bus, drawing electricity from overhead wires.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2024

Three years earlier, the state’s Public Utilities Commission audited the DWP’s operations and concluded that the utility did not inspect its overhead wires frequently enough to ensure they are in good condition.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2023

But within city limits overhead wires, with such space-consuming potentials, are as fraught with mischievous peril to the public as the dynamite stored by a nonchalant contractor in the cellar of a schoolhouse.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis