CU Phosco P862 Lantern Installations

CU Phosco's P86X range comes with four lanterns. The P862 is most often used on "A" roads. They are incredibly sturdy lanterns, even winning a 2016 LUX award for exterior luminaire of the year! Unlike a lot of LED lanterns, these can be upgraded on-site fairly easily if required, so these are designed to be maintained into the future. They are also available with a plethora of optics.

Birmingham

This unusual set of installations is located along Tyburn Road. First, are a set of ceiling brackets which previously supported Philips SGS203 lanterns. Nowadays, however, they have been fitted with CU Phosco P862s.

Then, there are a set of column-mounted P862s at 6m, running along the carriageway that runs beneath the others.

This installation is on the A38(M), not far from the previous set. One of these (right) had developed a fault causing the lantern to flash once every 2-3 seconds. I was hoping to capture it doing so, but only managed this photo before the bus moved past it.

Dordon

Still on the A5, these P862s all use the same node cells as the previous examples. Due to ongoing works, they were all day-burning.

The first column to be photographed was column A5, 63B 33.

A closer view of the P862; the brackets previously would have extended further out, but have been sawn short to accommodate the P862.

After this column, the day-burners started appearing...

Stoke-on-Trent

These P862s line the A500. Double-armed columns are present down the central reservation, with P862s also extending along either side of the road.

Talke Road bridge provided an excellent side-profile of the P862s. Datek Light Controls are installed on top of all of the P862s here.

Some Philips SGS254s are visible in the distance, on hinged columns due to powerlines passing overhead.

Much further into the heart of Stoke (still on the A500) are the remains of a column which had previously supported an Urbis ZX3 until a road traffic collision.

The second column along provides a view into an alternate time-line, and what the previous column would have looked like, had it survived long enough to see the LED replacement scheme.

The P862s continue down the A500.

Tamworth

The A5 LED replacement scheme has been replacing the Philips Trafficvisions and Urbis ZX3s with these... CU Phosco P862s. They line the carriageway (currently) up until Ventura Retail Park. You may be wondering what the wire on top of the lantern is... it's actually there to stop the lantern falling off if the column is hit, as the spigot is a known weak spot for LED lanterns.

This CU Phosco P862 was pictured on 30/01/2024 and it was day-burning. All of the lanterns on this stretch of the A5 were, so they were likely working on them the previous night as this took place during the A5 LED replacement scheme.

They all appear to have node photocells, which use radio frequencies to turn the lanterns on. The node cells are Charles Endirect LCU 5-pin nodes. Thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for helping me identify the cells.