New lights are meant to light the pitch and stop light pollution, they are more efficient and cheaper to use

Also after 30 years the old ones had become unreliable.

Certain symmetry with the new lights starting to go up. Pretty sure the first game with the current ones was Hull KR at home as well back in about 1991/92?.

Not wanting to tempt fate but we lost that night!

Yeah we could see our errors better amd the aptly named Bright Sodje with their tries from memory!

I think the first game was a re arranged game v Widnes, which we won

Yes, the original game , which we were well behind when dense fog came down causing the game being called off, and as you say, the rearranged game we won beneath the new lights.

Are the new ones halogen as I thought they would be LED ??

They are, my mistake.

Another floodlight gone up

Up the Trin

Just to be pedantic, the old ones weren't halgen either, they were "gas discharge metal halide" lamps

Indeed. Cas are still seem to be using the ones like our original tripod tower lights from the 60s.
Weren't ours seen as dangerous as they were too close to the field and also not bright enough for sky?

No ours were set much further back than theirs, ours were behind the east stand of memory serves me. They certainly wernt pitch side.

I think ours were condemned as they were corroded?

You're right, they were at the back of the east stand and in line with the front of the west stand. A good distance from the field. Just had a look on the Trinity Heritage site. Amazing how your memory plays tricks. Maybe conflating with Cas' lights.

So, potentially another memory failure, were they condemned when the council owned the stadium? Or was that the west stand? Or neither?