Editing Dead-end tower (section)

==Branch pylon==
Dead-end towers are also employed at branch points as '''branch pylons'''. A tower at which the power line runs further as overhead line and as underground cable is a branch tower for a cable branch.

A branch pylon is used to start a line branch.  The branch pylon is responsible for holding up both the main line and the start of the branch line.  This makes a branch pylon also an anchor pylon since it must resist forces from both lines.

Branch pylons frequently, but not always, have one or more cross beams transverse to the direction of travel of the line for the admission of the branching electric circuits; some also have cross beams of the branching electric circuits lying in the direction of travel of the main line.  Branch pylons without additional cross beams are occasionally constructed.
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Pyloninblore.jpg|A branch pylon in the strict sense in [[India]]
Anlage901_Mast52_29032016_1.JPG|Cable branch
110-kV-Einschleifung.jpg|Loop-in of the branch, no through line
Dülmen, Umspannstation -- 2014 -- 0005.jpg|Simple branch within the span
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