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Post by vjaska on Feb 24, 2019 1:01:19 GMT
Over in Hounslow, Heston Road finally lost it's yellow sodium street lights last month. It was probably the largest section of yellow lights remaining in the borough, so it is a slight shame to lose them, but otherwise it is good to see the council finally care about that road. There were several lights not working, including one or two for well over a year (which had my reports ignored  ), but somehow they replaced one that was dead for less than a month which I didn't report  . At the same time they also replaced the ones in the half of adjacent New Heston Road that they missed a few years ago. Luckily Hounslow usually use LEDs of a good brightness, unlike neighbouring Ealing who used less bright ones virtually everywhere to replace the 2000s bulbs  I think the longest remaining section of yellow street lights in Hounslow borough may now be Burlington Lane in Chiswick (by Chiswick Station, along the E3). Although they've left random ones dotted about in a few places where they've put the new posts in a different location to the old ones, e.g. a couple of sections on Bath Road near Hounslow West Shame to hear Heston Road has lost it's collection of Thorn Alpha 4's & Philips MA's - Harringay has also purged it's remaining examples of Philips MA's in most places though Westbury Avenue & the western part of The Roundway have both survived. Kew Road in Richmond still has Philips MA's as well and is probably the longest section of road in London with them (Castlenau did have them as well) but they are certainly now being rapidly killed off by LED's and some of the new LED lights are truly awful looking and not particularly reliable in comparison to the 40 year old sodium lights. The LED conversion has still not restarted since it halted last year with Brixton & West Norwood Town Centres still only half done and others not done at all. There is also no sign of the 1980's columns on Stockwell Road, Stockwell Park Walk, Clapham Common North Side, a small section of Kennington Road & a small section of Kennington Lane being replaced....thankfully |
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Post by MartyJ on Feb 26, 2019 16:49:58 GMT
Merton eradicated its final concrete columns in 2017. We have a rolling LED programme across which will us seeing us install LED in a large part of the borough. The main road LED programme has been pretty much completed across Merton and we are now on to our secondary routes. Some of the street light which have received LED were first installed in the 1970s We have pretty much eliminated amber lighting across the borough with very roads remaining Fortunately the neighbouring borough of Sutton still have quite a few examples...and in great numbers compared to Merton which have now done genocide on them all.  The best example of comparisons is on the 154 and S4 routing along Green Lane where the Merton section of the road has had their lamps replaced/upgraded numerous times over the years whilst the Sutton versions along the road are still the same as from the 1950s/60s. The current concrete columns on Green Lane date from around 1985. Sutton was still installing concrete columns right up until the late 1980s when Merton had started replacing its concrete 1950 columns from the mid 1970s(many of which are still there and now have LCD lights). Most boroughs stopped erecting concrete columns by the early 80s. By the early 90s they had mainly been eliminated in Merton apart from some minor roads that were not part of the large scale replacement scheme of the late 1980s/early 1990s. There is probably no other borough in London that still has so many concrete columns especially on the Sutton side; though in Carshalton and Wallington they have now pretty much been eradicated. |
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Post by ServerKing on Feb 27, 2019 22:39:23 GMT
Over in Hounslow, Heston Road finally lost it's yellow sodium street lights last month. It was probably the largest section of yellow lights remaining in the borough, so it is a slight shame to lose them, but otherwise it is good to see the council finally care about that road. There were several lights not working, including one or two for well over a year (which had my reports ignored ), but somehow they replaced one that was dead for less than a month which I didn't report . At the same time they also replaced the ones in the half of adjacent New Heston Road that they missed a few years ago. Luckily Hounslow usually use LEDs of a good brightness, unlike neighbouring Ealing who used less bright ones virtually everywhere to replace the 2000s bulbs I think the longest remaining section of yellow street lights in Hounslow borough may now be Burlington Lane in Chiswick (by Chiswick Station, along the E3). Although they've left random ones dotted about in a few places where they've put the new posts in a different location to the old ones, e.g. a couple of sections on Bath Road near Hounslow West Shame to hear Heston Road has lost it's collection of Thorn Alpha 4's & Philips MA's - Harringay has also purged it's remaining examples of Philips MA's in most places though Westbury Avenue & the western part of The Roundway have both survived. Large sections of Lordship Lane still have sodium (albeit whitish light) lamps, only one is LED (ironically almost opposite my house after the original lamp got destroyed in a gale a year and a half ago and they just stuck an LED one there) Aside from the junction with the A10, there's still not a great deal of LED lamps just yet. Most of the lamps in Turnpike Lane were retrofitted with LED last year. Westbury Avenue is getting speed bumps and raised crossings which will make for an annoying bus ride... the first one with the junction with Lordship Lane even took my van by surprise so not sure if it will cause any bother for buses like the 444s, or deckers like the 217... |
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Post by M1104 on Mar 10, 2019 10:11:30 GMT
Lansdale Road in Mitcham, off Locks Lane have also finally had theirs upgraded but the first two lamppost on Locks Lane itself still have their original red into Amber bulbs. The first of those two Locks Lane streetlights is presently not working, which makes me wonder if they'll simply convert it to LED as I imagine they may no longer stock the original red into amber tube lamps. This is assuming the fault is a blown lamp rather than something else that could be rectified without upgrading. Streetlight is working again, still with the old lamp |
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Post by M1104 on Mar 10, 2019 10:13:30 GMT
Oxford Avenue off Kingston Road (near Wimbledon Chase Station) appears to be the only side street in the area still to have all its original late 70's/early 80's red into amber lamps. Time finally caught up with them as now all upgraded. |
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Post by snowman on Oct 14, 2019 20:09:26 GMT
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Post by vjaska on Oct 14, 2019 23:35:46 GMT
Meant to mention this so thanks for bringing it up - most of the Sodium lights (Philips MA's & Thorn Alpha 4's) have alreayd been removed and replaced with LED's on brand new columns (I believe the LED's are Luma Micros) with roads like Rocks Lane, Kew Road & some columns left on Upper Richmond Road. Other roads with much younger columns and lights have also got new columns with LED's. |
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Post by M1104 on Jan 14, 2020 13:43:51 GMT
The first of those two Locks Lane streetlights is presently not working, which makes me wonder if they'll simply convert it to LED as I imagine they may no longer stock the original red into amber tube lamps. This is assuming the fault is a blown lamp rather than something else that could be rectified without upgrading. Streetlight is working again, still with the old lamp Streetslights have finally all been refurbished |
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Post by vjaska on Mar 22, 2020 2:20:08 GMT
Apologies for the lack of updates as I simply keep forgetting but there have been some updates in regards to Lambeth in particular:
Late last year, early this year, the council came back and finished converting the rest of the Urbis Albany streetlights in West Norwood from regular bulbs to LED fittings - Norwood Road between Tulse Hill railway bridge & Robson Road had already been done bar two examples that were missed out (these two have still not been done) and as a result, Norwood High Street, Knights Hill & Ernest Avenue have all followed suit. That still leaves half of Brixton & half of Clapham Common awaiting similar work to be finished.
And now over the last few weeks, the main roads that were upgraded in the mid 00's (before the PFI scheme) are now having their Urbis ZX3's replaced by Phosco P862 LED's - Kennington Lane, Durham Street , Harleyford Road, Brixton Hill & Clapham Road so far have been done with Brixton Hill only finished as of Friday. Camberwell New Road, Kennington Park Road & Brixton Road are left to be done along with two columns that were missed at the Kennington Lane/Kennington Road junction.
This will leave the South Circular & Streatham High Road plus Stockwell Road & Stockwell Park Walk as well as a small section of Kennington Road & Clapham Common South Side without LED's. The interesting thing about the ones I've bolded is those roads contain the oldest columns in the borough with Stockwell Road & Stockwell Park Walk's columns dating from 1975 (I've found photo evidence on a bus website of all places) - the other's seem to date from the 80's. Tulse Hill's columns are so far the only ones pre 1990's to have had LED's installed on them and these mainly date from 1975 as well baring a few replacement columns over the years that date from the early 1990's
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Post by Green Kitten on Mar 22, 2020 8:33:56 GMT
I believe the SOX lights on White Hart Lane have all been changed to the ugly LED lights Haringey generally use. Used to drive down that road many a time for driving lessons (and many failed driving tests ), went past a few days ago |
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Post by vjaska on Mar 22, 2020 12:57:47 GMT
I believe the SOX lights on White Hart Lane have all been changed to the ugly LED lights Haringey generally use. Used to drive down that road many a time for driving lessons (and many failed driving tests ), went past a few days ago Haringey have sadly eradicated most of the SOX lights it seems - not a fan of the LED's they chose either as they're much nicer looking ones on the market. The Roundway still has some left. It's very hard to find SOX lights in the London area - Rocks Lane in Barnes has a few left and a few did survive on Upper Richmond Road. Not sure if the ones in the borough of Kingston have survived - the ones on the A3 at Tolworth & Hook I believe are still there Outside of London, Glasgow has loads of different SOX lights still though some have been replaced but they're really taking their time doing so whilst a few councils in the Midlands still have sizeable numbers. |
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Post by M1104 on Apr 5, 2020 0:41:12 GMT
Fortunately the neighbouring borough of Sutton still have quite a few examples...and in great numbers compared to Merton which have now done genocide on them all. The best example of comparisons is on the 154 and S4 routing along Green Lane where the Merton section of the road has had their lamps replaced/upgraded numerous times over the years whilst the Sutton versions along the road are still the same as from the 1950s/60s. The current concrete columns on Green Lane date from around 1985. It's sad for me to report that they now have new streetlights erected next to them, already painted in Sutton's typical green livery. As it was still daylight I'm not sure if those new ones are yet working. |
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Post by vjaska on Oct 22, 2020 18:57:31 GMT
Lambeth have now started on the lights within Brixton Town Centre which are predominantly Urbis St. Giles - Acre Lane has had its examples converted last month meaning Acre Lane is fully LED lit bar one light (The columns have two lights - one overlooking the pavement and the other being the normal one overlooking the road and there is just pavement light not done due to being within a construction light). The section of Porden Road that didn't succumb to the construction site by the town hall has also been converted to LED (Buckner Road's examples were removed due to it becoming pedestrianised once the construction works are finished). Coldharbour Lane has also been done bar three lights by KFC & Premier Inn. The conversion keeps the original exterior of the light including it's bulb cover but inside has around 8 LED lights rather than one standard SON bulb - you'll notice which ones are done if your not passing through at night as the bulb covers have been given their first clean in 20 years lol. Finally, I can provide an update to this: From Monday, Lambeth have begun on the rest of the Urbis St. Giles lights in Brixton Town Centre starting with the Lambeth Town Hall one way system although this time, they are fitting Urbis Albany bulb covers upon conversion rather than cleaning the existing one and putting it back in which is slightly odd I must say but at least it’s back underway as a number of the regular bulbs in the Urbis St. Giles have long failed |
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Post by vjaska on Feb 1, 2021 18:50:47 GMT
Lambeth have now started on the lights within Brixton Town Centre which are predominantly Urbis St. Giles - Acre Lane has had its examples converted last month meaning Acre Lane is fully LED lit bar one light (The columns have two lights - one overlooking the pavement and the other being the normal one overlooking the road and there is just pavement light not done due to being within a construction light). The section of Porden Road that didn't succumb to the construction site by the town hall has also been converted to LED (Buckner Road's examples were removed due to it becoming pedestrianised once the construction works are finished). Coldharbour Lane has also been done bar three lights by KFC & Premier Inn. The conversion keeps the original exterior of the light including it's bulb cover but inside has around 8 LED lights rather than one standard SON bulb - you'll notice which ones are done if your not passing through at night as the bulb covers have been given their first clean in 20 years lol. Finally, I can provide an update to this: From Monday, Lambeth have begun on the rest of the Urbis St. Giles lights in Brixton Town Centre starting with the Lambeth Town Hall one way system although this time, they are fitting Urbis Albany bulb covers upon conversion rather than cleaning the existing one and putting it back in which is slightly odd I must say but at least it’s back underway as a number of the regular bulbs in the Urbis St. Giles have long failed Update to the update: Back in November just before the 2nd lockdown, the work stopped with one particular lamppost having been left with no light installed at all ever since but work has begun again today though not on the section where that lamppost is. The rest of Brixton Hill is pretty much finished, just a couple of lights left whilst Effra Road is fully completed. I’d guess St Matthews Road will be done next which would mean that lamppost with no light will be completed as well. |
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Post by vjaska on Mar 16, 2021 0:48:17 GMT
Finally, I can provide an update to this: From Monday, Lambeth have begun on the rest of the Urbis St. Giles lights in Brixton Town Centre starting with the Lambeth Town Hall one way system although this time, they are fitting Urbis Albany bulb covers upon conversion rather than cleaning the existing one and putting it back in which is slightly odd I must say but at least it’s back underway as a number of the regular bulbs in the Urbis St. Giles have long failed Update to the update: Back in November just before the 2nd lockdown, the work stopped with one particular lamppost having been left with no light installed at all ever since but work has begun again today though not on the section where that lamppost is. The rest of Brixton Hill is pretty much finished, just a couple of lights left whilst Effra Road is fully completed. I’d guess St Matthews Road will be done next which would mean that lamppost with no light will be completed as well. An update: The poor lamppost which has been left without a light since November has finally been done as well as well as Brixton Hill pretty much fully completed with both the lights for the road and pavements lights done. Brixton Road has also been started on with many of the lights for road replaced with LED Urbis Albany and a few pavement lights also replaced whilst they were beginning work on the rest of the examples on St Matthews Road as I walked home from work earlier this evening. One light still remains untouched on Effra Road likely because of the awkward position it's in on a traffic island in terms of parking up and blocking traffic. Still nice to see progress with a large part of Brixton Town Centre joining West Norwood in being converted over to LED - still got a large part of Clapham Common & High Street to go and then it becomes a waiting game to see how long the remaining late 70's to 1980's columns on Kennington Road, Stockwell Road, Stockwell Park Walk, Clapham Common North & South Sides & Long Road will last for as these continue to sit with their Urbis ZX2's which have sat on these columns since the mid to late 90's. Streatham Hill is expected to have it's lights replaced once the consultation regarding the altering of the road layout and subsequent commencement of construction is realised. By the next few years, it could literally just be the South Circular plus some roads around the Waterloo & Lambeth Palace areas that remain with non LED lights within Lambeth. |
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), but somehow they replaced one that was dead for less than a month which I didn't report 
. At the same time they also replaced the ones in the half of adjacent New Heston Road that they missed a few years ago. Luckily Hounslow usually use LEDs of a good brightness, unlike neighbouring Ealing who used less bright ones virtually everywhere to replace the 2000s bulbs 
The best example of comparisons is on the 154 and S4 routing along Green Lane where the Merton section of the road has had their lamps replaced/upgraded numerous times over the years whilst the Sutton versions along the road are still the same as from the 1950s/60s.
