The lighting at the halt
Carpenders Park Station 100 years old on 1st April 2014
By David Reidy
Keep visiting Our Oxhey to find out how we will be celebrating the anniversary of the station in 2014.
Paraffin Junction
The lighting of the original halt earned it facetious nicknames. When equipped with the original oil lamps it became know locally as Paraffin Junction, and when these were later replaced by electric dish lamps on curved metal supports it came to be known as the Dog Track.
In those days the current for lighting came from the railway’s own supply, and if two trains started or approached the station simultaneously at night the platform lights noticeably dimmed. Conversely, if the electric supply to homes locally failed, as it often did as a result of overloading at Watford electricity works, the railway lights could be seen to remain illuminated.
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