blue plaque · York

East Coast Main Line

The First Mast to carry overhead wires for electrification of the East Coast Main Line was planted at Peterborough on 7th February, 1985. Exactly 2 years later, on 7th February, 1987, this 12,000th mast was put in place by The Prime Minister The Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher M.P. to mark the completion of one third of the total project and the start of work in the York Area.

Inscription drawn from imported open data, awaiting original TributeLegacy editorial.

Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

Nearby locations in York

Browse all memorials in York

Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.