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.
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