NEW LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR RAILWAY YARDS
GLARE ELIMINATED Floodlights of 3,000 candle-power each will make the new railway yards at the Auckland Railway Station as light as day. This new system of lighting, the only satisfactory one yet designed, will also be installed at the Christchurch marshalling yards, Frank ton Junction, Timaru, Greymouth, and Thorndon. With the new lighting system there is no glare and therefore the yards will be made safer at night. Special lenses eliminate all the glare and anyone rnay look- into the great
lights without the eye 3 being effected. The floodlights have already been installed at Otahuhu, where two towers. ROft high and half a mile apart, flood the whole of the yards with brilliant light. Two lamps are necessary to eliminate any shadows. It is estimated that the lamps at Otahuhu will represent a saving of £75 a year to the Jclailway Department.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 1
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149NEW LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR RAILWAY YARDS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 1
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