It was a historic moment in Nyngan after Mr White helped install the original lights at the oval in 1958. 

"My dad and I were in business at the time Stan White and Son," Mr White said.

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"Jack Vanges, the mayor at the time, he was a great promoter of bike riding.

"Bikes used to run every Sunday night and Jack was the main benefactor of the cycle club and they put together the money to put in the original lights to light the track."

Mr White said it took them about a fortnight to install the original lighting, and agreed back then it was also very welcome. 

"From memory it took us around a fortnight," he said.

"In those days, all the trenches were dug by hand … the shire was involved in doing it too.

"The way it was done is that the pipes were laid and the wires came up each pole.

"The poles were made over in the shire's welding works and they weren't as tall as these today, but they would be about two thirds of these."

"They had two lights on each one and they were all assembled on the pole and the engineer was Jim Johnson who had this gadget that hooked on to the poles half way up and they would zip straight up and went straight onto the poles."

Mr White said the track, originally gravel, hosted almost 80 riders, who would compete on Sunday evenings and the lights were originally designed to light the bike track. 

"There would be 10 to 15 races a night, juniors through to seniors men and women, and it used to run for two to three hours every Sunday night," he said. 

Mr White agreed Nyngan was a major sporting town, and he was pleased to see the grounds becoming more useful for all sporting clubs in Nyngan. 

"[The lights have] turned it all into a very useful oval though, it's one of the things that was shortchanged," Mr White said.