The Rail Lighting Revolution
A quiet but highly visible revolution is taking place in railway lighting. LED lights are slowly but surely displacing fluorescent and other lighting technologies in stations, maintenance depots and other railway buildings. LED Eco Lights, an award-winning British lighting manufacturer is currently re-lamping a major London terminus across 19 platforms with G360 LED SON lamps, T8 LED Tubes and PL LED lamps from its Goodlight range.
As pioneers in retrofit LED since 2006, LED Eco Lights provides a comprehensive range of LED solutions for commercial, industrial, amenity, leisure and hospitality environments. Goodlight LED lamps switch on instantly at full brightness with no warm-up required. They use much less power than other lighting technologies, and are maintenance free. Their 50,000 hour lifespan equates to eleven years if switched on for 12 hours per day and are guaranteed for five years.
The Goodlight range has proved popular with design, engineering and sustainability professionals. Clients include NHS, Jaguar Land Rover, British Airways, the MOD, Heathrow Airport, Sainsbury’s, Carillion, Quorn Foods, London Excel and more recently, Transport for London, who has added Goodlight to its Approved Products Register.
Huge Savings
The reasons aren’t hard to see. Commenting on the Transport for London approval, Project Director Dr Leon Smith said:
“The network is transitioning to much greater use of LED lighting, partly because of its energy efficiency, but mostly due to the huge savings in maintenance and labour costs more advanced technologies allow. This reflects our new approach to procurement, taking a long term view and looking at the whole life-cycle costs for all the products we install across the network.”
He continued, “We rigorously assessed products from many world leading lighting suppliers and as a result of this process, we are delighted to confirm that two Goodlight™ LED products met our high standards; products that we will be actively using to secure savings.”
The two approved products are Goodlight T8 LED tubes, which are mandated for use where LED tubes are required in all non-section 12 areas, and Goodlight G360 LED SON replacements which can be used anywhere on the network.
Retrofitting is Economical
In a new building or one that is being refitted, it is a simple matter to install suitable LED light fittings from scratch – but many of the current projects involve re-equipping existing stations and buildings. Ripping out entire light fittings is costly, but the introduction by LED Eco Lights in its Goodlight range of solutions that can be installed directly into existing light fittings has transformed the economics. Products from this range have now been approved for use across Transport for London’s network in both Section 12 (underground facilities) and non-Section 12 areas, such as the tube, rail and bus stations, depots and bus shelters.
Available in warm, daylight and natural colours, the Goodlight T8 LED tubes are specifically designed for retrofitting into existing fittings and operate independently of external control gear. With translucent lens covers, they look just like fluorescent tubes and, once installed, deliver a bright, even light spread with no shadowing. Specified output of 105Lm/W leads to direct energy savings up to 75 per cent. Lighting output ranges from 10W, with the 2-foot T8 tube, up to 35W for the 8-foot model. See the full range of T8 LED Tubes here.
The Goodlight G360 LED SON lamp range has been designed to provide retrofit LED replacements for standard E27 and E40 SON and metal halide lamps usually associated with industrial lighting applications in high and low bay lighting, or for exteriors in bollards and street lighting. The range pioneers MagLev Fan Technology (a patented design), plus a unique new heat sink design, to draw away waste heat. This unique combination provides inimitable new design with performance; delivering a long, unrivalled lifespan allowing the lamp to operate at temperatures beyond 70°C. See the full range of G360 LED SON Lamps here.
