219G. Off Albert Street, Penrith, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria With thanks to Oliver Davison for informing me of these Survivors. Installed within the bus station area are several 25 ft (8 m) Cohen Brothers tubular steel columns, with three of these supporting Thorn Alpha 3 lanterns; two of which have the lamp control gear mounted remotely, and with the other, the gear is mounted within the lantern. Going on the mounting height, the lanterns probably run 250 Watt SON-E (elliptical high pressure sodium) lamps.
A double-bracketed installation exists at the entrance to the bus station. Notice the dayburning GEC Z8600 / Siemens / WRTL MRL 6 in the background.
The bracket supports seem woefully inadequate for their task in hand - it's a good job that the separate gear Alpha 3s are not especially heavy lanterns!
The left-hand lantern (as seen here) features a Royce Thompson P42 detector installed in the unusual position of the canopy (ordinarily, any sort of photocell control is positioned on the rear casting). None of the other Alpha 3s appear to have any sort of photocell control, suggesting that this lantern group-switches the others.
A single-arm column was positioned to illuminate the bus bay area.
Three fairly lengthy bolts secure the bracket to the column.
One of the two bowl clips on this example requires re-securing, although the bowl itself doesn't look too grubby internally despite this.
The third installation is at the bus station's exit, and supports the geared version.
Yet another bracket design is seen here.
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