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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:55 am 
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Here's another one from the Essex County Council "let's keep 'em going until they drop off" files. This column and (presumably) mercury lantern stand outside Ingatestone Railway station. The column seems a little high to be a group B installation meaning that, if it still works, it might be the only Group A mercury lantern still working in Essex...

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A close-up reveals the concrete bracket is still in remarkably good condition...

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But the presence of an adjacent overly large pole with a pair of SON floodlights on the top (almost standard issue at railway crossings these days!) will indicate that the lantern is now disconnected :-(


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:57 am 
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Bit of a shame really as that would have made a brilliant glow at night over the crossing.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:46 pm 
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Presumeably given its location relative to the fence line, it is railway rather than council owned?


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:50 pm 
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Worthy of a night drive by to see if it works. Usually the floodlights are used with the streetlighting.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:15 pm 
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Phosco152 wrote:
Presumeably given its location relative to the fence line, it is railway rather than council owned?

Sorry, that photo is a bit misleading. It is outside of the railway station fence line (whereas the flood lighting pole is inside the fence line - see here). Having said that, in the absence of a pavement along the side of the road, it could still be Network Rail's land.

I personally think it won't work because of the adjacent flood lights, but if for some reason it has been kept in light and is owned by the council, it would have almost certainly been converted to sodium by now, as I'm sure Essex don't use 250w mercury anywhere in the county these days!

But if it is Network Rail's, then there's plenty of local railway stations which still use mercury, e.g. Clacton, Colchester, so there is a chance!


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:10 pm 
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Strange, but not true!


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:31 pm 
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Claire wrote:
Strange, but not true!


What on earth?  :lol:

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Is that a Streetview image? I know of similar things, such as the Giant Pliers of Doom picture (there'll be a link from a google search somewhere)... but none as strange as that.


as for mercury in rail stations, there's a fair bit of it around still. Stalybridge uses Mercury in it's SGS201's, and in a single solitary Beta 4 at the eastern end of the manchester platform.

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:lol:  Its the spirit of the Eleco GR100.

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If that's an unidentified flying object, I don't want to know about the aliens inside - or their probes! :shock:

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