Station lights

[Super D]

I have recently purchased some gas lamps to fit in my station. How high were they in real life and how far apart were they?

[96701]

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[Nick Holliday]

I suspect that the height of gas lamps was really up to the provider. Without being able to reference your models it is difficult to say how high they should be, but I have no reason to suspect that they are not reasonably to scale, although, of course, those sourced from Europe or the USAare likely to be to HO scale and, potentially, too small for an OO layout.

 

As for spacing, the ideal criteria is to provide an even lighting level throughout, so the higher the lamp standard, the further apart they can be. Perhaps if you were to imagine the pool of light cast by a single lamp, maybe at 30 degrees to the horizontal, this would give a spacing of 3½ times the height of the lamp. This may not actually apply to the parsimonious Victorians but is the sort of calculation involved in placing lamp-posts nowadays.

[mikeg]

Generally the hieght to the cross bar was between 11-12ft and the spacing varied from 30 to 60ft from the information on historical street works record that can sometimes be found in the local library.

 

hope this helps

 

mike g

[Super D]

Thanks for the information chaps.

 

Derek