City of Edinburgh
"Edinburgh Streetlighting Page - with thanks to Steven Oliver for assisting with the locations of the streetlights and who has also provided some notes on them, which appear below each picture."
PHILIPS MA90 (LESS GEAR) SOX 90W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Chalmers Street, next to the old
ERI. I have to say that the
combination of a Philips MA90 lantern on a sleeved CU column does
look very
uneasy - these ones in Chalmers Street would have had
P107s
originally I'd imagine before conversion to MA90s. A similar
conversion
took place in Stockbridge some years ago IIRC. Earlier
conversions used Alpha 1s, which looked a lot tidier.
Photo taken May 2004
THORN BETA 5 SOX 35W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Keir Street. A late-model Beta 5
on a steel column as a
replacement for a much older concrete one.
Photo taken May 2004
THORN BETA 79 SON-T 70W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Glen Street. The
Beta 79s there went up at the start of the
1990s and
replaced mostly CU posts with top-entry Beta 5s and (I
think) Eleco HW747s
Photo taken May 2004
URBIS ZX3 (LOW PROFILE BOWL) SON-T 250W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Lauriston Place.
Formerly lit by Alpha 3s, this was the very
first street in
Edinburgh to lose
them when the columns were
replaced
back in 1996. However not all were done as a lone side-
entry GEC Turtle remains at the eastern (Forrest
Road) end.
Photo taken May 2004
URBIS SATURN SON-T 250W, No Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Tollcross. Again lit by Alpha 3s until a few years ago (sob!).
Photo taken May 2004
CU PHOSCO P??? SOX 90W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Lauriston Gardens.
What you have listed as a CU Phosco is in
fact an
early top entry GEC Z9454 on a CU column. There are still
plenty of these in adbundance in
Edinburgh, but
sadly some have now
been
sleeved and/or replaced either through casual replacements or
as part of lighting upgrading schemes.
Photo taken May 2004
WRTL ARC 2 SON-T 250W, No Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Melville Drive. These cast iron
columns were originally
erected in
tramway days and converted to lighting poles when the
trams
finished in the 1950s. The WRTL Arc 2s are recent
replacements for Philips MA60 180w lanterns which had been in use
since the
seventies and latterly had their canopies coated in tree
sap.
Presumably this explains why the canopies on the Arc 2s are
green....!
Photo taken May 2004
CU PHOSCO P107 MBFU 80W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Lonsdale Terrace,
near the Meadows. Most Edinburgh Phosco
P107s are
of the 55w SOX variety, and the less-common MBFU version
of the
Phosco P107, as shown, can be found in clusters around the
city
centre, including Lonsdale Terrace which is lit by MBF Phosco
Nearby in
the Meadows are another variation on the Phosco theme, the
HPS versions. Some have also recently
been
converted
to Metal Halide.
Photo taken May 2004
GEC Z5681 MBFU 80W, No Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Princes Street
Gardens. I had to think before placing where
this lantern was, as these are not very common in
Edinburgh, but
there is a clutch of these in Princes Street Gardens IIRC.
Photo taken May 2004
PHILIPS MA90 (LESS GEAR) SOX 90W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Lauriston Gardens.
The MA90 was used for lighting and
casual
replacements up until a few years ago (not sure about the
post being
in grey primer though!), while the nearby GEC Z9454 top-
entry is the later version.
Photo taken May 2004
GEC Z9455 SOX 90W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
As above.
Photo taken May 2004
CU PHOSCO P??? SOX 90W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Mound. Again these
are top-entry early GEC Z9454s on cast-
iron
posts, which have survived while others nearby disappeared
years
ago. There are five of these columns at the foot of the
Mound, and in tramway days these were painted silver.
Photo taken May 2004
ELECO HW747 SOX 35W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Keir Street again.
I think this is an Eleco HW747 (top entry)
on a very early CU post (later ones used fitted to
Stanton columns).
Like the
SOX version of the Phosco P107, this seems to be an
Edinburgh
peculiarity.
Photo taken May 2004
WRTL ARC 1 SON-T 150W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Tollcross. This
WRTL Arc 1 looks to have replaced a top-entry
GEC Z9454
with cast-iron bracket, and looks more in keeping than the
butchery
carried out on other wall-mounted cast irons in the city
centre
which had the ends hacked off to accomodate Urbises (Guthrie
Street
being a prime example of this). If the wall mounted top
entry GECs
have to be replaced, this is the one to use, and indeed
has been
recently used to replace wall-mounted GEC lanterns in
Newhaven and Portobello.
Photo taken May 2004
URBIS SUTTON SON-T 70W, No Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Castle Wynd. A
brave person indeed to take pics of the
lanterns
there as the steps are quite steep! These Urbis Suttons
are fairly recent and, I think, are HPS.
Photo taken May 2004
CU PHOSCO P109 SOX 55W, No Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh version of the CU Phosco P107, a 55W SOX lamp, and a day burner which I snapped at Carlton Terrace Brae, near the city centre, a few weeks ago and which you may wish to feature on the page if you so wish. Notice that the lamp has a double refractor which is a feature of all versions of the P107 in Edinburgh.
Photo taken April 2004
WRTL PTL SON-T 70W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Photo taken October 2004
WRTL VECTRA 1 SON-T 70W, Zodion SS3 Photocell, Central of Edinburgh.
Photo taken October 2004