This well illustrated book takes a look at the huge variety of lamps and lanterns used by railways in Switzerland, prior to the introduction of electric lighting. The book examines lanterns used in signalling, headlamps and tail lamps, lamps for train interiors and also those used for lighting stations. An accident in Bellinzona in 1924 sped up the replacement of gas and paraffin lamps with electric ones. Well illustrated throughout with colour photographs of lamps and lanterns and archive photographs from the early 20th Century. German & French text. Hardback. 176 pages. Published 2010.