TRT Aspect Mini Lantern Installations

Available between 10W and 50W, the LED TRT Aspect mini is a common road lantern throughout the UK. It's the smallest lantern in the Aspect series by TRT Lighting. The lantern's main body is made from diecast aluminium, and can be adjusted with a post-top or side-entry spigot. The gear-tray is easily replaceable with minimal need for tool use. These features make it a favourable lantern for residential areas of the UK.

Llandudno

The TRT Aspect Mini is a very common sight in Wales. This installation is on Old Road, featuring four LEDs.

Followed by another similar 5m installation a little further up the road.

The next Aspect Mini is wall-mounted. Although the lantern and bracket are fairly new, the cut-out box is an old GEC one.

This example was less than one year old at the time of photographing. It is a nice demonstration of the newer design of Aspect Mini. Notice the improved spigot section, and overlapping lid at the back of the lantern, which distinguish it from the older examples.

This scenic Aspect Mini is installed on Wyddfyd Road. Originally, this hockey-stick column supported an early 2000s Thorn Beta 5, but that was changed to a Philips Lumistreet. At some point afterwards, the TRT Aspect Mini replaced the Lumistreet.

I would imagine one of the reasons for the Aspect Mini & Aspects usage near the seaside is due to their corrosion-resistant properties. Not one of them I saw while I was there had any corrosion on it. This one was installed between 2018-2021 along Happy Valley Road.

This Aspect is mounter at about 8m along Tudor Road.

Installed before 2022, off Gwynedd Road, are a few Aspect Minis which replaced very corroded Holophane Denver Poles.

Rugby

TRT's Aspect Mini is used extensively around Rugby (and everywhere in Warwickshire in fact). In this case, it had been used to replace a Beta 79 in 2017.

The lanterns in the area all use radio-node cells.

This is another example on the opposite end of the street. They both appear to be on newer cast-iron columns which previously (before the Beta 79s) supported top-entry Simplex Geminis for 55W SOX.

The following examples were pictured during a service change-over on Linnell Road. Well, that's what I had thought, but they've been like this since at least August of 2022 - almost three years before the following images were taken!

Upon closer-inspection, the reason for the column's intended removal is clear. The base is significantly corroded.

A new estate off Houlton Way utilizes black Aspect Minis for the side-streets and black Aspects for the main roads:

Shuttington

On Shuttington Road is this rather magnificent example of an Aspect Mini. It is mounted to an original AC FORD pole bracket.

If you continue down Shuttington Road, and enter Shuttington, you may spot this example on a side street.

Despite this damage, the lantern looks to be okay.

Tamworth

The TRT Aspect Mini isn't common in Tamworth, although it does still exist in a few locations, notably: a new housing estate near Ventura Retail Park and in areas around Lichfield. The lanterns can run between 10W and 50W LED. These are the ones located in the new housing estate.

The TRT logo can be seen printed onto the mounting spigot.

Whittington

This next lantern is certainly not okay! It's column has been ripped out of the ground by a vehicle impact. The lantern struck the ground, mangling the front corner of it... 

The force required to do that is extreme. The only exception would be a large vehicle hitting it, but judging by the state of the columns base, it was a smaller vehicle.

It's a shame the lantern didn't come off, or I would've tried to save it.

Despite this, I did manage to save the photocell.

A column on the same road: