Station lighting times

[pitdiver]

Apparently all the windows of the Pub are boarded up with FOR SALE painted on them. So it would seem it is closed for the foreseeable future. Not the best place to have a pub considering the limited access. Would have very busy in the past when there was a large amount of commercial traffic on the Norfolk Rivers

 

[Deepgreen]

All understood, but the goods loop lights are NOT on all day every day, when the snowplough siding ones have been on permanently for the last three years at least. The Tonbridge sidings are also not on during daylight hours. So my point was; why do the snowplough units have to be on when the others don't/aren't - I'm surprised they've not burnt out by now.

Well, this is (fairly) interesting. This morning, for the first time in many years, I happened to notice that the Redhill 'snowplough' siding lights are off!! Have they all burned out at once, or has someone taken the initiative and turned them off, I wonder? Seems too great a coincidence not to be connected with this thread, but who knows...?

 

[HonorlessMink]

Most Southern stations seem to have all-night lighting of some description. Apart from those served by overnight services, many only have a gap of a couple of hours between first and last trains, so the energy saving and cost-effectiveness of timers/photosensitive switches is probably negated by the cost of fitting and maintaining them. However, automatic dimmers are used at some locations.

Kenley has lights on all night with the last train at 00:54 and the first not until 05:58. I assumed that this was due to the fact that the station never really closes - there's an entrance and exit on both platforms connected by the footbridge which are open all the time. I have noticed that some of the lights seem to dim, but not go off, until you come near them.

Purley, however, seems to have some motion sensor lights that go off completely.