GWR Station Lamps, Gas or Oil ?

[gwrrob]

I've been looking at those nice DCC Concept station lamps recently but I'm torn between the two types available.Can anyone say when they changed from oil to gas lit please.I model the post war period but the same lamps would have been there a long time before.After ww2 electricity might have been installed but I'm sure the lamps would be the same.

 

Also has anyone used these lamps on dc ?

[The Stationmaster]

I suspect that gas lit lamps would have been used wherever there was a town gas supply readily available and the station needed plenty of lamps due to platform length.  Gas lit lamps survived until the late 1950s/early '60s at many WR stations so would be perfectly ok for your period.

 

The only oil lamps I'm aware of on WR stations by the 1950s were the type which had quite a tall post with a small windlass (very compact) which was used to raise a special model of Tilley lamp up to the top of the post.  These remained common at smaller remote stations until - in many cases - closure in, again, the late '50s/early '60s.

[Banger Blue]

Some good pictures on Martin Loaders excellent Fairford Branch Line website:

 

Cassington Halt in Sept 56, text states that the halt relied on oil lamps.

 

http://www.fairfordbranch.co.uk/Cassington.htm

 

Kelmscott & Langford, shows the tall lamp post Mike refers to, sixth picture down shows the lamp post with Tilley lamp in place.

 

http://www.fairfordbranch.co.uk/Kelmscott.htm