My Collection: Monitron 200/854

This signal was obtained from Spider Island, Derby with permission from Derby City Council. Thank you to AgentHalogen_87 for saving me this signal. I frequently have it running in my lantern room, but fear not for my electricity bill as it now runs LED lamps instead of halogen! The signal is believed to come from the first column on the left when approaching Spider Island from the south-east (Osmaston Road) but this cannot be verified and is only based on Google Earth images. The top reflector panel is a replacement as the previous one was missing. Permission was given by AgentHalogen_87 to use the below image of the scrap pile of signals, but the signals that were saved are not in this pile of treasure!

To open the signal, each lamp-area has two plastic pins to keep it closed. These can be pulled out. Despite the spaghetti-like wiring, most of the wires are now defunct, as they would have been for traffic and pedestrian controls. These are all located behind the red signal.

On the side of the controls/tactile power supply RS252 unit is a 16/03/2000 date.

In the bottom of the fixture were about twenty used lamps which had accumulated over lamp-changes the traffic signal had gone through. Out of twenty, five of these still worked and one was brand-new in the box. These were saved into the lamp collection.

The signal makes for an interesting splash of colour on the otherwise-bland walls.