Major Fire at Bilsdale
 

The transmitting mast at Bilsdale, which serves Teeside & most of North & East Yorkshire has suffered a major fire.

One of the transmitter buildings has been severely damaged & there was also fire in the lower stage of the mast itself. There are fears that the mast may be structurally compramised.

All services are currently off air.

Many of the local relays that rely on Bilsdale have had their feeds hastily re-engineered onto Pontop Pike. The Eston Nab relay has currently been re-allocated Bilsdales TV frequencies & the transmit logs repositioned to serve as much of Middlesborough & Stockton as is feasable at this time.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...th-york-moors/

Re: Major Fire at Bilsdale
 

This happened days ago, I believe some customers have had some service restored since then.

Re: Major Fire at Bilsdale
 

The fire occured on Tuesday & there are currently still site access issues. Services have only been restored by the measures already mentioned, plus some temporary kit that has been despatched to the area.

Re: Major Fire at Bilsdale
 

Already being discussed in another thread (link below).

This thread closed.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...&postcount=354