Monaco
Taken Sep 2006
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as of 2020
Update May 2021: It seems as if the pricipality used the time in 2020 when there were no tourists due to the pandemic, to update their lighting. All the street lights on this page have been removed and replaced by LED fixtures. The pole positions do look the same, though.
This quad post top with Girardin Tambour mercury fixtures is by the car park barrier for the Fairmont Casino, the entrance to which is at the Lowe's Hairpin (Av. Princesse Grâce). At some point after 2010 the barrier was moved to a location nearer the street, but
the pole and fixtures survived. At the time of writing (2024) the pole is still there with the 4 fixture arm arrangement, but the mercury fixtures are now LED roadway types.
Much of the lighting in this principality is like the rest of France, lots of open botton luminaires, and the method of changing the throw of the luminaire by moving the lamp around in the
reflector. These luminaires are often very simple, the mechanism can be clearly seen in the full size pic of the luminaire here, this one is on Avenue Princesse Grâce, a Mazda Solair 400.
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as of 2020
Here's another post top combination, this time with 3 axially lamped (probably mercury) open bottom luminaires. It's actually a very famous fixture, but most people don't usually notice it. It's located right in the middle of what is variously known as the "Grand Hotel hairpin" or the "Lowe's hairpin", or the "Fairmont Hairpin" when the streets are used for motor racing, most notably Formula 1. The real street name is Avenue Princesse Grâce. You can see the lamps are angled in order to throw the light outwards from the luminaire. Looking at some images on the Phozagora site, these might be Mazda Cosmolux fixtures.
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as of May 2013
A Thorn Triumph 2000 at the junction at the bottom of Rue Grimaldi- there are many of them elsewhere here, too. They are HPS.
Update May 2013: Watching this year's Formula 1 TV
coverage, it appears that this (the Thorn Triumph) fixture and pole and
some of the others on this street have been replaced. All the other
stuff on this page still appears to have survived, though.
Gare de Monaco
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as of 2017
This station had been rebuilt, and was about 7 years old when we visited, but still looked quite new. It's wholly lit with induction lighing- Eclatec "Satine" bulkhead luminaires with 85W QL lamps. It's a very large QL installation, Eclatec use it as a case study on their website. The overall effect is pleasing, and distinctive solution to lighing a railway station.
Update Feb 2024: Some time between 2017 and 2019 the inductions were replaced with LED fixtures which have a very similar look, and cooler colour temperature.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons for Gare de Monaco)
(Source: Wikimedia Commons for Gare de Monaco)
If you get the fullsize pic, you can see a date code "99F". This suggests the lamp is original, with about 7 years on it at the point the pic was taken.