I really miss the old LPS SOX type street lights - they used to be everywhere when I was young, but now you hardly see them at all, apart from the odd very old ones that sometimes crop up in rural areas and villages, but even these are now being changed for LED ones. I did have to go a different route the other week and ended up on a road I haven't used for a while, but there were so many old Philips MA50 with remote gear street lights it was like going back in a time warp to the 1980s / 1990's all over again - so much monochrome orange. That road is the A5013 road leading towards Eccleshall straight as you exit the M6 junction 14 roundabout between there and Great Bridgeford. And pretty much every one of the them was working as well, so Staffordshire County Council must still have some 135W Sox lamps left in stock to keep them going. Those old lamps would last years and years, unlike today's LED lights. In Stoke on Trent where I live, we still have quite a lot of HPS street lights on the main roads, including the main A500 between J15 and J16 of the M6, but most of the side roads now are on LED. It is very rare in Stoke to see any SOX lights left, but as I say, that road between the M6 J14 and Great Bridgeford, there are tons of the old 80's MA50's and they pretty much all work.
HPS Street lights on A5 Watling Street from M69 to Nuneaton still there but roundabouts now LED. One Day Burning 135 watt LPS still working Coventry A46 / M69 Slip Road on to M6. But LED's are replacing them now so will gone soon.
And what a relief to see them. I hope this goes further and not just in places where the LEDs are Amber to blend in. The A46 between Newark and Lincoln is being upgraded, I wonder what colour they went for? Warm white seems to be the trend, but could it be possible that this road is the first to keep Amber lighting? And the M69 Roundabout being out for months is a disgrace. National Highways should be replacing those before massacring lights that work elsewhere.
Still only 4 Amber (HPS Coloured LED) street lights on A5, Most HPS street light now failed on off ramps M6 / M69 Coventry, However roads works starting soon on bridge over M6. So lights might be fixed or change then.
I really miss the old LPS SOX type street lights - they used to be everywhere when I was young, but now you hardly see them at all, apart from the odd very old ones that sometimes crop up in rural areas and villages, but even these are now being changed for LED ones.
I did have to go a different route the other week and ended up on a road I haven't used for a while, but there were so many old Philips MA50 with remote gear street lights it was like going back in a time warp to the 1980s / 1990's all over again - so much monochrome orange. That road is the A5013 road leading towards Eccleshall straight as you exit the M6 junction 14 roundabout between there and Great Bridgeford. And pretty much every one of the them was working as well, so Staffordshire County Council must still have some 135W Sox lamps left in stock to keep them going. Those old lamps would last years and years, unlike today's LED lights.
In Stoke on Trent where I live, we still have quite a lot of HPS street lights on the main roads, including the main A500 between J15 and J16 of the M6, but most of the side roads now are on LED.
It is very rare in Stoke to see any SOX lights left, but as I say, that road between the M6 J14 and Great Bridgeford, there are tons of the old 80's MA50's and they pretty much all work.
HPS Street lights on A5 Watling Street from M69 to Nuneaton still there but roundabouts now LED.
One Day Burning 135 watt LPS still working Coventry A46 / M69 Slip Road on to M6. But LED's are replacing them now so will gone soon.
And what a relief to see them. I hope this goes further and not just in places where the LEDs are Amber to blend in.
The A46 between Newark and Lincoln is being upgraded, I wonder what colour they went for? Warm white seems to be the trend, but could it be possible that this road is the first to keep Amber lighting?
And the M69 Roundabout being out for months is a disgrace. National Highways should be replacing those before massacring lights that work elsewhere.
Still only 4 Amber (HPS Coloured LED) street lights on A5, Most HPS street light now failed on off ramps M6 / M69 Coventry, However roads works starting soon on bridge over M6. So lights might be fixed or change then.