The measurement train routinely covers all of the Network. It was at Salisbury a couple of months ago.

I suspect then that it's due back this way soon. It was September/October time that somebody noted the flying banana on the East Coast Mainline, but the Class 43 loco driving it was a Grand Central loco on test.

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I'm not sure that lantern has twisted on the column, for a narrow platform I would expect the long axis of the lantern to be parallel to the platform edge. Even the Reading ones are orientated that way but on a wider platform.

Oh I see... I'm just used to the lanterns being perpendicular to the line of the platform so that the flux from the light source is thrown along the platform length.

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Not strictly station lighting, but I have been made aware of this picture - taken by Paul Bigland.
This is of a Skytrain in Thailand, but look at the row of lighting to the right of the train - looks an awful lot like GEC's to me!
http://www.paulbigland.fotopic.net/p68546762.html

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http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/ ... p?id=22180
old photo of the station at Appelby in Westmorland... with a good view of several GEC Z8260's. (though I am having trouble with the description of the image, as the alignment doesn't seem correct regarding the eden valley branch... I believe the photo may be actually looking south and the Eden Valley line is going off ahead whilst the S&C goes to the right)
A few years ago, all the stations on the Settle and Carlisle line has the lighting changed to heritage "windsor" style fittings... most use CDM lamps and have the station name printed on the glass.... the lanterns look like this
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/ ... p?id=31890

another old pic
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/ ... p?id=16652


carlisle station, and old fluorescent
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/ ... p?id=21405

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Those lanterns are really nice, much more authentic than the usual grotty 'Windsor' type lanterns you see in town centres etc.

http://paulharris.fotopic.net/p47822240.html
These venerable Phillips MA30s at Blackpool North station were dayburning again today (as they often do) and for the first time when passing I noticed the elliptical SON lamps within.

A picture of Malton station in 1987... and look at those nice platform lanterns (a bit more unusual to railway stations)
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/ ... p?id=18630

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What are those? They look similar to some lanterns that used to belong to a caravan park near me. The columns look like CU triangulars.

The lanterns themselves are Eleco 'Way' HW828 clear bowl lanterns.... I have one in my collection with a clear bowl (and a small number of HW870's with opaque bowl). It is unusual for these types of lanterns to be used on railway platforms though.

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