Bedfordshire Street Lighting

At the time of writing replacement schemes are relatively unusual in Bedford with the majority of lighting upgrades being on a casual basis (please see the photo galleries for examples of these). These pages are dedicated to any wholesale replacement programmes that I come across in Bedford and in other areas also.

1) Queen Street, Bedford - January 2009

2) Wood Lane, Cotton End, Bedfordshire - March 2009

3) Ship Road & Merrifield Road, Pakefield, Lowestoft - May 2009

4) Southtown Road Port Area, Gt Yarmouth - August 2009

The original stock of lighting in this town centre street was mostly GEC 5670 MBF Post top lanterns with one odd six metre concrete column. The new stock being installed are all hockey stick columns fitted with WRTL 2600 lanterns running SON. This Scheme was completed late April 2009

The old column is leaning a little but otherwise is ok

The painters have not yet reached this new hockystick which is just it's natural dull grey. Bedford tend to use 1 of 3 colours; Pale Green, Brown or Black. There are  examples of galvanised columns in the area also but these are rare.

This old Thorn Beta 7 also running MBF is the only one in this road and on this 6M column looks exceedingly small and gives a very poor light. The 2600 on the otherhand looks rather large on the 5M hockeystick column.

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