Celebrating 40 years of the iconic Station Lamp design

Inspired by lighting at our great railway stations, the station light has a spun metal shade with a fine edge and domed waisted top that hangs from a traditional metal chain or in the case of the large pendants from straight metal bar fittings emulating the double lamps seen adorning cast iron posts on station platforms up and down the country.

The design features a large glass globe, which replaced the four sided gas lantern lighting which was commonplace before the advent of electricity.

The station light, is an iconic design forever synonymous with our great British railways and still found on platforms today.

Bespoke options are available from a hand picked range of painted and plated finishes.

Launched in 1980, the Station Lamp is celebrating 40 years of service at David Hunt Lighting. Inspired by the traditional lighting seen at Britain’s great railway stations, it is available in a number of configurations; single, double, and triple pendants as well as a wall light.

An early advertisement for the Station Lamp dating back to the early 1980's

To celebrate these 40 years of service we’re running a series of painted pendants inspired by the trains and stations of the golden age of travel.

The Station Lamp in King Edward Blue

With a history dating back to 1687 when master brass founder John David Hunt, crafted fine candlesticks in the reign of James II, David Hunt lighting’s heritage spans ten generations of the Hunt family who adapted to a rapidly modernising world.  A family of Entrepreneurs & Exhibitors the late 1700s brought the Industrial Revolution and cottage industries became futurescapes of whirring machinery.

The Hunt family thrived and were selected to exhibit their products at Prince Albert’s Great Exhibition under the glass domes of Crystal Palace in 1851.

The Station Lamp in Great Central Red

Quick to adopt new technologies, the company moved from candlesticks to outdoor gas lamps to light the streets of nineteenth century Britain and became leaders in electroplating by the 1890s. The late 1950s saw a long-awaited revival of design, manufacture and innovation. The post-war shortages of labour and raw materials were finally at an end and a young John David Hunt founded the current factory in the Cotswolds.

The Station Lamp in Gladstone Gold

Experimenting with new technologies, the company became leaders in spun metal and fine resin casting, creating design classics that typified a new, futuristic era.  The 1980s saw a return to traditional British interiors and John Peter Hunt, the tenth generation in the brand’s history, began to rescue Victorian gas light designs from the company’s archive. Adapted to twentieth century manufacturing techniques and electrical standards, these collections anchor David Hunt Lighting to its past and have been best sellers for four decades.

The Station Lamp in Booking Hall Green

Today sees one of the iconic designs of this time celebrating 40 years in the David Hunt Lighting collections,

To commemorate this we have created 4 four new bespoke colourways of the timeless Station Light design, continuing to preserve the company’s heritage and the traditional techniques mastered at the original David Hunt factory, now thriving with a new generation of talented crafts people.

Hear our creative director Hollie Moreland talk about the collection here

Please contact your nearest stockist for more information on how to order