Derby's Street Lighting PFI Contract
Blencathra Drive / Pillar Court, Mickleover
The columns being removed on this road were:
Seq. No. | Lamp Number | Location | Lamp Type | Watt | Isolation Point |
1 | 60253 | O/S NO 1 | SXPL3 | 35 | |
2 | 60254 | OS NO 5 | SXPL3 | 35 | |
3 | 60255 | OPP NO 20 | SXPL3 | 35 | |
4 | 60256 | OS NO 10 JNC FP | SXPL3 | 35 | |
5 | 60257 | OS NO 22 | SXPL3 | 35 | |
6 | 60258 | O/S NO 19 | SXPL3 | 35 | |
7 | 90571 | O/S NO 23 | SXPL3 | 35 |
The following photographs were taken on the 4th April 2010 - Easter Sunday.
A GEC Z9532 was first from Kipling Drive; this received a new photocell on the 18th March 1996, a new lamp and ballast on the 23rd April 1997, another new photocell on the 9th September 2003, and a lamp and ignitor on the 4th March 2004. It gained further new lamps on the 30th August 2007 and the 26th January 2009 (this one being second-hand), and a new photocell on the 25th February 2008 (the Royce Thompson SC1000 seen in the images below), followed by another new ignitor on the 27th March 2008.
Another Z9532 was next in line; this received a new photocell on the 19th October 1999, and a new ballast (and photocell) on the 15th May 2000.
A GEC Z5698U lit the footpath between Blencathra Drive and Pillar Court (and for identification purposes, was linked to the latter road - the only light on there). The lantern was attached to an Abacus raise-and-lower column, and received a new photocell on both the 10th October 1996, as well as on the 18th September 2001; the lantern receiving a new lamp on this visit too.
Seq. No. | Lamp Number | Location | Lamp Type | Watt | Isolation Point |
1 | 90634 | ON F/P TO BLENCATHRA DR | SXPL3 | 35 |
Another Z5698U was installed adjacent the crater that is intended as an overflow drain, and received a new photocell on the 26th April 1996. In all the time I have known this excavation, I have never known it to contain any significant amount of water at all! It does make a good spot for sledging in snowy weather, however!
Another Z5698U was installed at the end of this part of the road until 2005, when the column was accidentally knocked by a vehicle. A replacement CU column painted a hideous nonstandard (for Derby) colour and fitted with a WRTL Arc lantern soon appeared in its place. The work surrounding the replacement is recorded thus:
W/O 2103 Straighten/secure column 13/09/04 - Column damaged, reqs replacement. Replacement column, lantern, etc. 31/05/05 W/O 3135.
The Arc received a new photocell (a Zodion SS3DR) on the 6th July 2005.
Z9532s were used along the rest of the road; this first example received a new photocell on the 23rd September 2005, and a lamp / lampholder on the 12th January 2006. A dayburning fault caused the lantern to be fitted with a second-hand photocell on the 27th May 2009.
A new photocell was fitted to the other Z9532 on the 27th November 1996, with the lamp being changed on the 22nd February 1999. A further new photocell was installed, along with a new ballast, on the 15th May 2000.
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