Derby's Street Lighting PFI Contract - Broadway, Darley Abbey (Part One)

The outgoing lighting on this road largely consisted of various 90 Watt SOX lanterns fitted to 25 ft and 8 m tubular steel columns. The relighting brought an end to almost 80 years of 90 Watt SOX (and its predecessor, 140 Watt SO/H) operation along this road - photographs exist of the road as it appeared in the 1930s and 1950s, and the original lighting along here consisted of 140 Watt open fittings installed in the centre of the carriageway, by means of enormous outreach brackets. This scheme appears to have lasted until the 1960s, when the majority of the columns due for removal under the PFI relighting scheme would have been installed. Broadway is a tree-lined road, and so most of the new 10 m tubular steel columns are fitted with outreach brackets, in an attempt to move the lanterns away from the overhanging tree branches. Incidentally, the new lanterns are the SGS 253 (medium) version of the Philips Iridium, and run Cosmo-White lamps.

Seq. No.	Lamp Number	Location	Lamp Type	Watt	Isolation Point
1	107081	OS THE LEYLANDS EN	N/A	N/A	Y
2	107082	O/S MELODY/OPP NO 268	N/A	N/A	Y
3	84902	JNC KEDLESTON RD	SXPL2	90
4	84903	OS NO 2	SXPL2	90
5	84904	OPP LONGFORD ST	SXPL2	90
6	84905	OPP HOTEL CAR PARK	SXPL2	90
7	84906	OPP HOTEL CAR PARK	SXPL2	90
8	84907	OPP HOTEL CAR PARK	SXPL2	90
9	84908	OPP NOS 16/18	SXPL2	90
10	24815	OPP NOS 22/24	SXPL2	90
11	24816	OPP NOS 30/32	SXPL2	90
12	24817	OPP NO 38	SXPL2	90	Y
13	24818	O/S NO 4 BROAD BANK	SXPL2	90
14	24819	OPP 1 BROAD BANK	SXPL2	90
15	24820	OPP NOS 70/72	SXPL2	90
16	24821	OS NOS 80/82	SXPL2	90
17	24822	ENTRANCE TO THE LEYLANDS	SXPL2	90
18	24823	ENT TO LEYLANDS	SXPL2	90	Y
19	24824	OPP NO 104	SXPL2	90
20	24825	OPP NO 106	SXPL2	90
21	24826	OPP BAPTIST CHURCH	SXPL2	90
22	24827	CNR PENNY LONG LN	SXPL2	90
23	24828	OS BAPTIST CHURCH	SXPL2	90
24	24829	OPP NO 168	SXPL2	90
25	24830	O/S NOS 172/172A	SXPL2	90
26	24831	O/S NOS 178/180	SXPL2	90	Y
27	24832	O/S NOS 186/188	SXPL2	90
28	24833	O/S 194	SXPL3	90
29	24834	OS NO 200	SXPL2	90
30	24835	OS NOS 204/206	SXPL2	90	Y
31	24836	O/S NOS 210/212	SXPL2	90
32	24837	OS NO 250	SXPL2	90
33	24838	OS NOS 252/254	SXPL2	90
34	24839	OS NOS 260/262	SXPL2	90
35	24840	OS "MELODY"	SXPL1	90
36	24841	OS NOS 272/274	SXPL2	90
37	24842	OPP NO 280	SXPL2	90
38	24843	OS NOS 284/286	SXPL2	90
39	24844	OPP NOS 288/290	SXPL2	90	Y
40	24845	OPP NO 292	SXPL3	90
41	24846	OS NOS 292/294	SXPL2	135
42	24847	OS BROADWAY HOTEL	SXP3	135
43	24848	O/S BROADWAY HOTEL	SXP2	135
44	106282	JUNC KEDLESTON ROAD	FL	8
45	106283	O/S NOS 30/32	FL	8
46	106284	OPP NOS 288/290	FL	8	Y
47	106285	OPP NO 292	FL	8
48	106286	OS NO 292	FL	8
49	106287	JUNC DUFFIELD RD	FL	11
50	106288	JUNC DUFFIELD RD	FL	11

An integrally-geared Philips MA 90 lit the entrance to the Broadway Public House car park. This was installed in the early 2000s, when St Mary's School opened in the area. Notice the PFI-standard twin aspect speed limit sign in the foreground; the signlights are Simmonsigns LUAs, with LED lighting units.

Another MA 90 followed; the replacement column here was squeezed in between two trees. The 'T' marking on the outgoing column is likely to stand for 'Transfer' - this refers to the electrical connection works required: rather than having the supply disconnected and a new service connected to the replacement column, the service would be transferred to the new column. Generally, this is cheaper than disconnecting the supply to one column and providing a new service to the replacement column.

A similar setup was next, although this MA 90 had been fitted with an anti-glare shield, despite its proximity to the adjacent tree. Of course, the tree would only offer effective light blocking in summer; once its leaves had fallen away, there would be an increase in back spill. The replacement Iridium was not fitted with such a device, although time will tell as to whether this remains the case. (By the way, the picture was definitely meant to look "arty", and was not taken from this unusual angle due to the tree or, indeed, the position of the sun at the time of photographing!)

A convenient clearing on the right made for a useful new column location in the next installation:

The next MA 90 sported a Royce Thompson SC 1000 photocell; the same as is fitted to all new lanterns being installed on the PFI.

The next outgoing column was a Stewart and Lloyd that probably dated from the 1960s' lighting scheme. Again, an MA 90 was fitted, although I think that this one dated from the 1990s.

This time, the type of outgoing column remained the same as that seen in the previous couple of photographs was, but now (at last!) there's a change of lantern - a 2000s' Thorn Alpha 4 was seen here. The wood pigeon must have preferred the outgoing column to the new one as well! Broadfields Close can be seen in the background; by the time that these photographs were taken, the outgoing columns installed along there had been removed.

Finally, a lesser-spotted Thorn Alpha 1 appeared, again fitted to a Stewart and Lloyd column. These lanterns are fitted with two-part cell detectors.

The outgoing column doubled up as a bus stop. Owing to there not being a new column installed here, a short straight post was installed, in order to support the bus stop sign.

Despite being surrounded by tree branches, the Opticell on this Alpha 1 looked reasonably clean.

Two further MA 90s were installed after the Alpha 1; the first was not installed within trees...

The pigeon seen earlier perhaps did not like Alpha 1s, however, as this example had a particularly grubby Opticell unit!