A RARE Furness Railway hand lamp for Haverthwaite station almost tripled its auction estimate to sell for more than £3,000.

The lamp had been expected to make just £1,000 to £1,200 in a specialist railway auction.

This example was marked for use at the Haverthwaite station – now part of a preserved line to Lakeside – but once part of a branch line to Ulverston.

A small plate shows it to have been kept in a station porter’s room.

The century-old lamp was sold by Great Central Railwayana Auctions, of Daventry, Northamptonshire, for £3,100

The same sale had a number of other rare items from the Barrow-based Furness Railway – which vanished as an independent company in a regional regrouping in 1923.

There was a cast iron railway bridge sign dated Barrow 1908 which made £950.

It warned drivers about the maximum weight limit of eight tons.

A stone boundary post with the letters “FR” for Furness Railway sold for £170.

These would have marked the edge of land owned by the railway company.

A section of decorative Furness Railway staircase sold for £100 and a cast iron roof spandrel said to be from Ulverston station made £210 despite an expectation of just £40 to £60.

The elaborate cast iron ends from a Furness Railway station bench more than doubled the pre-sale estimate to make £1,050.

It has a distinctive railway company design featuring a squirrel.

Two framed railway carriage prints in frames by the artist Hamilton Ellis also found new homes.

One based on a 1920 scene at Ulverston station sold for £80 and one showing a Coniston steam motor of the 1910 era made £42.