Re: Telegraph wires

I get the feeling that each installation was sort of done on it's own, and if a support rod under the thing was needed, as at Silverton, that's what it got.

Crossarms thrubolted on the ends of depots with one end sticking out and supporting the wires clear of the building side, crossarms mounted on iron straps at the ends of the buildings, crossarms mounted right above the bay window's sides on the depot's track side etc...

We seem to see a whole lot of, shall we say, "individuality" in the earlier installations.

I expect that eventually drove the Western Union to many of it's
"standards" (such as common design cable boxes on depot cable poles)in later line rebuilds.