[quote="Sonsoxman"]Badajos road estate in Aldershot is a private road near an MOD base and the estate still lit with Hampshire spec green hockey stick column with Phillips Mi126 :D https://maps.app.goo.gl/FbZDKgExJkB44zRq7?g_st=ic
Nice spot the MI 26 lanterns. They are the exact same spec as the pre PFI equipment. These lanterns aren’t in my view survivors as they haven’t been missed by the PFI - instead these were likely installed but never adapted by HCC. To make things more confusing, it is likely Hampshire CC still maintain them on behalf of whoever owns them.
This is for example the case in Guildford. Guildford Borough council still to this day has a lot of SOX installs of Beta 5s (perhaps 400 or so) that Surrey cc maintains on their behalf. Most of these Beta 5s would have been installed at the same time as the rest of the old beta 5s which were replaced in 2010/11 time. Funny that the Beta 5s are still going strong and the original PFI equipment has been modified to use LEDs now (luckily by retrofit)
Here are some links
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2447562 ... ?entry=ttu(Notice it’s painted in a different shade of green)
These are Surrey's preferred led lantern of choice (Kirium Eco)
These are installed in the exact same spec that Surrey would - but these use ZHAGA mini cells instead of urban control - again owned by Guildford.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.24616,- ... ?entry=ttuLastly in 2012 these arcs in ‘Surrey green’ (not exclusive to Surrey as Oxfordshire and other councils use that colour too) arcs were installed identical to those installed by the PFI but instead equipped with mini cells. They weren’t replaced towards the end of 2020 with LEDs like the Surrey CC owned units in Guildford, again these are privately owned. I’m presuming these were equipped with Harvard nodes when ordered from Indal at the time but it’s easy enough to wire in a mini cell.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2395287 ... ?entry=ttuI’ve also found 4 55W Libras with a mini cell in green - again still not led retrofitted which would have happened around summer of 2020!
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2456858 ... ?entry=ttuThis is the case in many council it’s often hard to find out who owns the lanterns & in many cases the council will still maintain the equipment- this also happens in Salisbury too where any private SOX is swapped out with an Axia 3 with a photocell instead of a node.