G.E.C Z8600

The section of the A561 known as Speke Boulevard which runs near Liverpool John Lennon Airport is lit by loads of these.
There are the odd spot replacements with Urbis ZX series and the odd WRTL Arc's ect but most of them are still here.

Quite a few of them sport toasted bowls and even have failed lampholders with their lamps hanging through melted holes in the bowl!
These are good, solid reliable lanterns apart from the infamous flawed lampholders in the early ones!

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Danny

[06 May, 2019 at 08:32 PM]

The M6 has these too i remember them having really old thermal photo cells on

FrontSideBus

[07 May, 2019 at 07:53 AM]

It really is hilarious when you see working lamps melting their way to freedom through the bowl. Laughing

thorncollector

[07 May, 2019 at 08:41 PM]

there were loads of these in glasgow in the 80s remember them well.

AngryHorse

[08 May, 2019 at 06:15 AM]

Thereâ€™s a handful of these on my work route, still running 150watt SON, very slowly being replaced with V-Maxes.

HIDLamp

[08 May, 2019 at 05:11 PM]

Loads on the M6 round Warrington, also on the M55 at Preston and the M61 where it meets the M6.

FrontSideBus

[04 May, 2021 at 07:35 PM]

The disco photocells on these are still flashing their way to life and again when going off at dawn... Laughing

Credit due for whatever lamps in these that survive!

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