He was electrocuted when training equipment he was carrying touched an overhead power cable.
And Metro-North Railroad's New Haven line relies on overhead power lines that could get tangled in blown foliage.
The firm said it continuously monitors track, signalling, overhead power supply and other equipment for ageing and degradation.
In electric trains, the braking energy is converted into electricity and fed back into the overhead power supply.
But going underground is an expensive proposition: The direct costs are much more than those associated with traditional overhead power lines.
Network Rail is replacing overhead power lines installed 30 years ago, reducing the number of delays and cancellations caused by faults.
The upgrade of outdated overhead power lines between London Liverpool Street and Chelmsford is set to be completed by May 2017.
Chris Ambler, from Jersey Electricity, said more overhead power lines were damaged overnight and a team of about 30 engineers were working to fix them.
The combination of being less of an eyesore and producing less electrical smog should, TenneT hopes, soften objections to the construction of new overhead power lines.
The report concluded that such technologies cost about 10 times that of overhead power lines, although another European study says that the rise in costs is about half that.
The danger was compounded by an overhead power cable, which broke loose and fell on the roof of the rear car, causing further arcing and a large amount of smoke inside the train.
"Members also feel very strongly that this submission cannot be looked at in isolation without also considering the possible impacts of any new underground or overhead power cables in such a scenic and conservation area, " it said in the newsletter.
The broken down train's equipment for picking up power from overhead lines was faulty, a Greater Anglia spokesman said.
Power in overhead cables kept tripping out in the Cambridge area, affecting all services between King's Cross and King's Lynn and the Midlands.
Here is a list of things that did not work on my Megabus: the introductory safety video, the Wi-Fi, the overhead lights and the power outlets.
Contractors have been replacing catenary wires the overhead electric cables that power trains in various spots along the line since 1991, and in some cases replacing original equipment erected in 1907.
We only waste 7-8% of our power on overhead.
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The gap between the pantograph, which is the arm on top of the train car that draws power from overhead lines, and the catenary system must remain within a precise distance and tension.
That is a massive amount of excess overhead in hardware, real estate, power consumption and productivity.
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Hybrids use diesel power where there were no overhead electric cables so could be used across the network without having to change locomotives or crews.
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Con Ed officials said those customers, mostly served by overhead wires, might not see their power back on for at least a week or more.
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From 1995 to 1997 he ran its European power-tools business, bringing down high overhead costs by removing 50 vice presidents.
The smaller warships are multi-mission vessels that help protect the strike group from overhead, surface and undersea attack while providing additional striking power, mainly in the form of cruise missiles.
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Most sales will be big-ticket items like power plants and locomotives, where profit margins rise rapidly after the overhead is covered.
The project will generate enough electricity to power 4, 500 homes annually and connect to the national grid via existing overhead lines.
Every phone is actually being commanded by the nearest cell site, and the overhead data is constantly being transmitted, and this data telle the phone how much transmitter power to utilize as it polls the handset(RSSI).
They had as many overhead wires as possible powered down for their move, but in their path was a set of wires that power local offices of the National Security Agency and cannot ever be shut off.
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