Just call it a station or substation (maybe a subsubstation in this case  ), then the plural aspect is covered. Since it's really a cable transition point, from submarine to land, I wouldn't class it as a terminal as it's only a end/start of a section, not the whole line. But I don't know how the official designations run for these things. The big book of words gives plural of terminus as termini/terminuses. More relevantly, it looks a bit temporary in some respects - quick to install and assemble, and abandon or remove later, possibly proven by the easily "removed" door. The bollard, or whatever it is, is rather intriguing. We have very similar items nearby, but the top is covered by a gasketed plate bolted on the top flange. This comes in two variants, either a straight blanking plate, or fitted with a shutoff valve to allow gas samples to be drawn from the ground below. If it wasn't just inside a door without a road or access, I'd have suggested it was a nasty, but warranted surprise for anyone that wanted to try ram-raiding the little hut. This is the first instance I've come across of such an OS map marking actually being related to an identifiable feature on the land. |