A story I missed to catch in photo:

A section of a platform on our local railway station just got new lighting. It is a rather small platform, with about four metres tall steel posts, each with two fixtures, one for every side. I almost stumbled by surprise when I saw the replacement the first time: What they screwed on the poles were fixtures for 250 watts HPS lamps. Good lighting is always welcomed, but too much is just too much. This overkill even outshined the lighting in the underpass and on another platform, two tracks away.

Tonight I saw that it must have dawned to someone: The 250 watts fixtures are gone again, replaced by 70 watts lanterns such as the ones in this now gone installation, a model that was already around in 1993 when I saw the first replacement project using it.

Seems that these specialists took the wrong stuff off the shelves. This morning one of the wrong fixtures just lay on the platform when I came along, and its fat bulb was really striking. I would have tought that it would be impossible to not note that this must be a bit more than 70 watts.