Railway 200 Then and Now: Electrification's tale of Volk and volts

As part of this year’s Railway 200 celebrations, over the course of the next few months RAIL will be running a series of extracts from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2025, courtesy of Profile Books. Each extract will be accompanied by a look at how the topic has evolved over the past 200 years. In this issue, we start with an early electrification pioneer…

The past: 1883