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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:47 pm 
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When on the M5 this week, after what seemed like endless SGS204s, I was surprised to then see this stretch of Philips MA60 lanterns still surviving! The brackets were different lengths depending if the motorway was going around a slight bend or was just straight. What I found most interesting is that the lanterns were group switched in two halves (the ones on the verges to the right of the photo, and the lanterns on the rights of the double brackets were switched first). It was particularly weird seeing so many single lanterns from a double bracket switch on at once! When one half were pinky-orange in colour, the remaining verge and the MAs on the other half of the brackets switched on.

It was all very exciting, I've never seen group switching quite like that. I would have imagined both lanterns on the central columns would all be group switched at the same time but this was not the case!!

Casual replacements have exclusively consisted of gear in shoe MA60s.

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Well it must be that the wiring was done to light one carriageway separate of the other one. But this adds extra wiring to the central columns, and also if the supply cable develops a fault then one carriageway goes out - compared to just one side of the double-lit carriageway if the central columns were wired separately.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:02 pm 
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This underpass in Stoke has had all its previous lighting removed and is now lit entirely with LED tunnel lighting.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 3:51 pm 
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Hayfield and the surrounding rural High Peak area has seen its clear photocells changed to a green translucent photocell - these are part night cells as each affected lantern now has a purple sticker placed on the column explaining that this lantern will be switched off between midnight and 5am.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:06 pm 
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With the A43 shut to through traffic at Silversrone, a trip to Claire yesterday meant an alternative route using the A46 and M69. A few bits of interesting lighting were spotted.

South of Coventry at the A45/A46/A444 Stonebridge interchange and looking north along the A444 towards Coventry, Alpha 3s still light the carriageway.

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Just to the east of the interchange S&L columns from the 1970s with extension brackets and SGS203s (and a ZX3) light the A45.

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On the A52 south of Nottingham are these 1970s columns with distinctive brackets (and a few newer columns) with Philips TrafficVision lanterns.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:32 pm 
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I suspect the A45 ones are safe from the Coventry PFI due to them being Highways Agency owned.
The Alpha 3s on the other hand are lucky to still be in service having missed two schemes so far.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:17 pm 
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Those A444 Alpha 3s look great and on decent sized brackets too, they could quite well be the original lanterns from when the road was either lit for the first time or opened.

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Retford retains a couple of Revo Lucidors near to the high level railway station. On the road to the town there are a few Philips MA lanterns, one of which appeared to have a near opaque bowl because of nearby vegetation. Heading into town there is a lone Alpha 3 near an Aldi superstore. Elsewhere in the town there are a fair amount of white canopied Urbis ZX series lanterns.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:43 pm 
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Urbis Saturn Land wrote:
Retford retains a couple of Revo Lucidors near to the high level railway station. On the road to the town there are a few Philips MA lanterns, one of which appeared to have a near opaque bowl because of nearby vegetation. Heading into town there is a lone Alpha 3 near an Aldi superstore. Elsewhere in the town there are a fair amount of white canopied Urbis ZX series lanterns.


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A few photo's from Birmingham...

The Canal from Tipton getting into central Birmingham
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Then there's quite a few of these P222's round by the ICC
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... all have been fitted with Telensa telecells (not always just 1 per lantern either), so presumably Amey are keeping them for the time being.

A modern take on the vertical fluorescent near Snow Hill
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And these wierd LED things by the Rotunda
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Here's a scene that makes Birmingham actually seem quite nice!
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