Rail road lantern?

[SilverSan]

Hello everybody,

I need Some help with a barn Find I did yesterday. I found An chalwyn lantern, but if I look up pictures, than the brand is on the round curve of the roof, but on mine it's on the door. It also looks line it was a yellow One in a previous Life. Is there anybody who can tell if mine is a real One or a replica?

Thanks in advance!

[SilverSan]

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[c2R]

Here is a link to the gallery: Gallery:Images_by_Silversan

It's a nice lantern, I'd have said it looks like a railway one, but I've no specialist knowledge to confirm that!

[Pendlemac]

Here is a link to the gallery: Gallery:Images_by_Silversan

It's a nice lantern, I'd have said it looks like a railway one, but I've no specialist knowledge to confirm that!

With what looks to be two red 'bullseye' lenses and having been yellow before being over-painted I would think it is a corner lantern for use on road barriers.

I wondered if it had originally been on a set of level-crossing gates, but those lanterns have the two red lenses in line and not at 90 degrees.

[Isleworth1961]

It's not a UK railway lamp, it doesn't look robust enough. Looks like a roadworks guarding lamp.

[SteveA30]

I have 2 of those, one red and one in blue. The blue has Chalwyn on the lid, the red one, no manufacturers name. They both have BS 3143 on them. The red is work worn, the blue looks unused. All glass intact. The red one has an oil or paraffin lamp inside. The blue one an electric set up. Are they worth anything?

[Reading]

Maybe you could pimp up the paraffin one and sell it as an upcycled chaffing dish or urban oil burner on a arty farty website ?

Looks like they are on sale at £30-40 on ebay for some bizarre reason (un pimped)

[highwayman]

definitely a chalwyn road lamp , I've got 12 road lamps 4 yellow chalwyn , 1 red chalwyn 3 yellow dorman smith para lamps ( the same dorman smith who made the battery operated cone lamp now owned by Unipart ) , 3 red kenyons ,1 blue kenyon with red lenses.
There are other makes out there too