194K. Station Road / Weaver Avenue, Rainhill, Merseyside With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Installed in a car park off Station Road are two Stanton 1810 35 ft (10·6 m) double-arm concrete columns, with all four brackets supporting an ELECO GR 150 lantern for 135 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps. With the car park having no other lighting installed, these two installations probably remain in nightly service.
The two columns are installed in line, allowing symmetrical images, such as the one below, to be captured.
With the GR 150 being around 3 ft (0·91 m) long, the overall length of the twin arm brackets can be appreciated.
The lamp fitted in the left-hand, foreground, example, appears to be a GE product. Since GE stopped making SOX lamps in 2007, either, there is a stockpile of lamps somewhere to keep these lanterns going, or the lantern may not work after all.
Oddly, the concrete was missing from the tips of the bracket on the other column.
These are older GR 150s, with the bowls slipping into an aluminium support frame, rather than attaching directly to the lantern body.
The opposite number on this column had a rather significant water ingress problem, judging by the internal discolouration to the bowl.
A small shopping precinct on Weaver Avenue saw three Concrete Utilities' Byway-X columns installed - one of which still supported its (original?) P107 lantern.
The P107 had run a 35 Watt SOX lamp formerly, but was now equipped with an LED lamp instead.
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