Derby's Street Lighting PFI Contract - Babington Lane, City Centre

The equipment being removed consisted of the following items in 1997. Since then, construction Derby's Inner Ring Road has been completed; meaning that not all items listed here were still extant by the time that the PFI scheme commenced.

Seq. No.	Lamp Number	Location	Lamp Type	Watt	Isolation Point
1	23666	OS BABINGTONS REST	SONE	250
2	23667	OS BRINDLEYS	SONE	250
3	23668	OS CONFETTI'S	SONE	250
4	23669	OS CHARTERED TRUST	SXP1	135
5	23670	CNR SITWELL ST	SXP1	135
6	23671	OS EX CURRY'S	SXP1	135
7	23672	ADJ EX CURRY'S	SXPL1	135
8	23673	OPP TEXACO GARAGE	SXP1	135
9	23674	OPP BABINGTON MOTS	SXP1	135
10	90996	O/S CARPET RENEWAL	SXP3	135
11	106412	SPLT OS ECLIPSE (GRAND THEATRE)	FL	11
12	106413	OS ECLIPSE (GRAND THEATRE)	FL	11
13	106414	O/S RITZY N/CLUB	FL	8
14	106415	CNR GOWER STREET O/S HUNTERS	FL	11
15	106416	SPLT JUNC GOWER ST	FL	8
16	106417	OPP SITWELL ST	FL	8
17	106418	OPPOSITE 74 (NEVILLE BROTHERS)	FL	8
18	106419	OUTSIDE 74 (NEVILLE BROTHERS)	FL	8	Y
19	106420	ON COLUMN 99096	FL	8
20	106421	JUNC NORMANTON RD (ON SPLITTER IS)	FL	11
21	106422	JUNC NORMANTON RD (ON SPLITTER I	FL	11
22	106423	JUNC NORMANTON RD (ON SPLITTER IS)	FL	8
23	106410	SPLITTER O/S ECLIPSE (GRAND THEAT	FL	11
24	106411	SPL O/S ECLIPSE (GRAND THEATRE)	FL	8

Two remotely-geared Thorn Alpha 3 lanterns, each running 250 Watt SON, were installed in the 'No Vehicles' zone.

The Alpha 3s replaced twin-lamp Atlas Alpha 8 (or possibly, single-lamp Simplex Jupiter) lanterns in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Back on the main traffic route, the ex-Z8526 columns now supported GEC Z9554M 135 Watt SOX lanterns.

There was a mixture of lanterns fitted with NEMA sockets and two-part cell detectors; this lantern is of the former type.

Moving slightly further up the road, more Z9554Ms could be seen, as could a privately owned Abacus 25 ft base-hinged tubular steel column, supporting an Atlas Alpha 3 lantern.

This Z9554M was fitted with a Zodion SS55 two-part cell detector.

While we're here, let's take a closer look at that Alpha 3...photographs exist that show this installation in 1974 (although, it was relocated away from the road at some point after then), and yet, the lantern and its 250 Watt MBF lamp could easily be mistaken as having just been fitted, in the photograph below - it is obviously well maintained by its owner. For more information on this installation, please click here.

This is the final outgoing column on this road; after this, the lighting had already been renewed when a roundabout linking Babington Lane, Lara Croft Way, Normanton Road, Burton Road, Mercian Way and Green Lane was constructed in 2010.

The spigot entry in a Z9554M is clearly somewhat shorter than the previous lantern's spigot entry was - notice the long stepped section between the bracket and lantern.