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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:00 am 
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This image is part of a larger one of Kings Cross Station in London by Brian Morrison/RAIL. The train shed is off to the right of the image.

Date is 12 June 1975, in the foreground is a train at the Kings Cross York Road platform. This platform closed in 1977 although remnants of it still survive today as part of the locomotive headshunt opened in 2010 as part of the redevelopment of the train shed and the new platform 0.

In the centre of the image can be seen York Road (now renamed York Way) and 2 curved bracket columns with top entry sodium lanterns possibly Elecos. One column is on the far left of the image, the other is to the right of the double decker bus. The building to the right of that column, is the train shed.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:32 pm 
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From Rail magazine/ Steve Goodrum, Great Yarmouth, 23rd May 2009. GEC Z8228 "Clearmains" on what looks like Eleco concrete columns.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:11 pm 
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Are they expecting to change the lamps allot :lol:....


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This reminds of a daft post I put on UK Streetlighting some years ago: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/S ... ssage/3646

"In a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, crazed Muslim Cleric,
Al Katraz, is demanding that ladder rests be retro-fitted to all of
the City's 132 remaining lighting columns, following plans by the
interim Government to install SON lighting on new 12m columns on the
approaches to the City.

In the surprise statement from Cleric Al Katraz, he stated that it
is was imperative that all streetlighting columns had these features
fixed to them immediately, as the City's lampposts are the most
suitable means of displaying the bodies of the foreign aggressors;
especially after one of his followers fell whilst attaching a body
to a railway bridge. "It's not safe for my followers to climb tall
objects such as lampposts on unsecured ladders" he said in front of
a crowd of thousands. He continued by saying that he welcomed the
installation of the new 12m columns to display the remains of
aggressors, but to install them without ladder rests was an
intolerable outrage of the highest order. He continued his rant by
saying that if the new columns were installed without ladder rests
then he would personally behead the appointed Chief Streetlighting
Engineer, or possibly one of his supervisors! However, since the
untimely departure of the last Chief Streetlighting Engineer, no
applicants have been forthcoming despite extensively advertising the
6k/year position in the recruitment pages of the Falujha Evening
Post; understandably the last remaining supervisor is somewhat
concerned.

Local fundamentalist and fanatical Al Katraz supporter (and part-
time Falujha fireman) 23 year old Abdul Krazd said, "I don't think
that the baying crowds below realise how dangerous it is trying to
climb up a ladder with a body over your shoulder, even for someone
like me who is experienced in using the fireman's lift. Ladders need
to be properly secured to ladder rests first; no one seems willing
hold them for very long when I go up. It would be safer for me to
hang the remains of the foreign aggressors off ladder rests, as this
would save me climbing higher to hang them from the bracket arm at
the top of the column, which can be very dangerous without us using
a proper safety harness, just like this one I have crafted from an
old leather trouser belt and a length of nylon rope". However, Mr.
Krazd expressed his concerns about how high up on the new 12m
columns ladder rests might be attached, saying that he feared that
Cleric Al Katraz would demand that they were near to the top.

A Government spokesman said that they were aware of Cleric Al
Katraz's demands, but denied that they were ignoring Health and
Safety issues, nor were they inciting religious hatred by not
fitting ladder rests to the columns. "Improving lighting in the City
streets has to be the main safety issue here; besides why don't they
invest in a second-hand cherry-picker?" he quipped. However, he also
emphasised that hanging bodies from lampposts, loitering with
intent, and fly posting would become illegal from November 2004, and
that offenders could be fined up to 1800 New Iraq Dinars (£2) if
caught.

On a more optimistic note, more moderate Clerics in the City are
taking a more neutral stance on this controversial subject by saying
that if ladder rests were installed they could double up as supports
for hanging baskets during the summer months when not in use as
gibbets".  


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:lol:   :lol:   :lol:

They could use old Eleco GR200s as coffins to bury some of the bodies of the infidels in too!


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Some of you may be interested in the original, distinct Docklands Light Railway lighting. I don't think any of these exist any more but please do let me know what you think? They date back to the late 1980s so perhaps they mirror popular the popular trend of spherical lanterns at the time?!

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I like the platform ones... probably because the globes are so comically oversized it looks almost fairytale-ish!

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If all spheres were mounted in this way I might actually like them, these are attractive installations! How are the DLR stations lit these days?


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I thought I was back in 1987 by looking at the photos. I've been after going on the DLR but never got around doing so.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:57 am 
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Here's one for you from about 1976 - what on earth is the lantern in the foreground? These date from the 1950s and were common across Blackpool until the mid 90s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23283012@N03/3318745323/lightbox/

Is that lantern behind the bus a GEC Z8430CM or something else? Quite hard to tell! I don't remember these being in this location, they were Alpha 8 MKIIs by at least 1985 (when I can first remember).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23283012@N03/3319545104/sizes/l/in/photostream/

This is a cracking photo showing a very modern (at the time) Gamma 6 in the foreground and some fluorescents in the background including what I think are Thorn Alpha 2s and a Revo Sol-e-Tern Junior behind the Gamma 6. The fluorescents were all gone by 1984 but the Gamma 6 survived a lot longer, until about 2004! Buses no longer use this turning circle, terminating instead in the nearby Tesco superstore since 1990 so why it's still lit is beyond me, but it is!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23283012@N03/3319558098/sizes/l/in/photostream/


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