Electrification Collection

A British Rail express Class 85 electric locomotive train, which ran on the newly electrified West Coast Main Line between Birmingham and Liverpool. December 1964

Train driver Tommy Heywood in the cab of his British Rail express Class 85 electric locomotive train, which ran on the newly electrified West Coast Main Line between Birmingham and Liverpool

Motor Bus London 1903
A Motor Bus causes considerable interest on a London Street. Bus owners faced the competition posed by the electrification of the tramways with motor buses

Breakdown lorry from Lambeth fire station in action
The breakdown lorry, from Lambeth fire station, being deployed to move a lorry involved in a serious accident with the OXO lorry in the distance

Train driver Charles Dutton in the cab of the electric express locomotive train The Manxman, driving at a steady 90 miles per hour. 9th January 1963

Railway signal at night
Colour-light signalling, a modern innovation in the early 1960s, on an electrified railway line

Isle of Man, Manx Electric Railway advert publicity leaflet c. 1930 Date: circa 1930

An evening effect at the Paris exhibition, 1900. Creator: Rivière, Henri (1864-1951)
An evening effect at the Paris exhibition, 1900. Private Collection

A train driver poses in the cab of his British Rail express Class 86 electric locomotive train, which ran on the newly electrified West Coast Main Line between Birmingham and Liverpool

Two new British Rail Class 83 express electric locomotive trains, built by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry

A British Rail Class 83 express locomotive electric train, built by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry

Afrosiyob Samarkand to Tashkent fast train, Samarqand railway station, Samarkand
Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Afrosiyob Samarkand to Tashkent fast train, Samarqand railway station

Un Guerrier électrisé, 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un Guerrier electrise, 1844. An Electrified Warrior. Le Physicien: Tel est, messieurs, l'effet veritablement extraordinaire de la pile de Volta!'

Double page, 1930. Creator: Klutsis, Gustav (1895-1938)
Double page, 1930. Private Collection

Lenin and socialist reconstruction, 1920. Creator: Klutsis, Gustav (1895-1938)
Lenin and socialist reconstruction, 1920. Private Collection

Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country, 1930. Private Collection

Rural electrification in Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural electrification in Pulaski County, Arkansas

Rural electrification, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural electrification. San Joaquin Valley, California

The Electrification of the South London Tramways (b / w photo)
1601074 The Electrification of the South London Tramways (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Electrification of the South London Tramways)

Underground railway electrification, London -- one of the new electric trains. Date: circa 1904

Underground railway electrification, London 1904
Underground railway electrification, Metropolitan Line, London -- showing the driver at his post, and passengers seated in a carriage. Date: 1904

Hydroelectric Dam Brings Electricity to a Small Town, 1946 (screen print)
3034967 Hydroelectric Dam Brings Electricity to a Small Town, 1946 (screen print) by American School

Train driver Arthur Marsey of Wavertree poses in the cab of his British Rail express Class 85 electric locomotive train

Freight train, Samarqand railway station, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Freight train, Samarqand railway station

Morocco
MOroco, Ourika Valley, Households on the outskirts of a Berber village in the foothills of the Atlas mountains

The Soviet Union has begun to build dirigibles. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

We smite the lazy workers, 1931. Artist: Anonymous
We smite the lazy workers, 1931. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

The Stalingrad Tractor Plant. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Magnitogorsk - Kuzbass. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Creator: Lissitzky
Magnitogorsk - Kuzbass. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country, 1933
Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Lets join the shock detachments into the combined shock brigades, 1931. Artist: Anonymous
Lets join the shock detachments into the combined shock brigades, 1931. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Westinghouse generators, Hydroelectric power station, Niagara Falls, USA, published 1898
5.000 HP Westinghouse generators at Edward Dean Adams Power Plant in Niagara Falls, the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world, built in 1895

Southern Railway (SR) Electric at Poll Hill, Kent. 1934

Mikhail Isakovsky
MIKHAIL ISAKOVSKY Russian poet whose subjects - such as rural electrification - won him praise in the 1920s; his popular songs were widely sung by peasants and soldiers

General primary education. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Ceremonial Meeting at Magnitogorsk. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Soviets - the highest form of democracy. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Cotton breeding. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Moscow Brick Factory. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Creator: Lissitzky
Moscow Brick Factory. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Khibiny. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Creator: Lissitzky, El (1890-1941)
Khibiny. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

The timber for Western Europe. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

The USSR produces powerful turbines. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Five-Year Plan: Batumi - Baku. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Petroleum. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Rioni Hydroelectric Power Plant. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

The first Tractor. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Creator: Lissitzky
The first Tractor. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Creator: Lissitzky, El (1890-1941)
Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Soviet woman. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Production of the Food Canning Factory. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

ANT-14 of Andrei Tupolev. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Chemistry in the hands of the proletariat and the peasantry, 1933. Creator: Lissitzky
Chemistry in the hands of the proletariat and the peasantry. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

The Red Proletarian Moscow Machine-Tool Plant. Illustration from USSR Builds Socialism, 1933. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Men working on tramline electricification, Wandsworth, London, 1906. Men at work on interlacing the track near Wandsworth Town Station, by the junction with Alma Road

Arches over the District Railway exposed during tramway electricification, London, 1906
Arches over the District Railway exposed during tramway electricification, Somerset House, Westminster, London, 1906

Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, London, 1906
Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, Stepney, London, 1906

Tramway electrification at the junction of Goswell Road and Old Street, London, 1906
Tramway electrification: men laying tracks across the junction of Goswell Road and Old Street, Finsbury, London, 1906

The enemies of the Five Year Plan, 1929. Found in the collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Interior of the Soviet pavilion at the International Press Exhibition, Cologne. Found in the collection of Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow

Greetings to the recently launched world giant Dneprostroi, 1932. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

The Development of Transportation, The Five-Year Plan (Poster), 1929. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

In the Storm of the Third Year of the Five-Year Plan, 1930. Private Collection

Cover of the of the catalogue of the Soviet Union Pavilion on International Presse Exhibition, Cologne, 1928. From a private collection

All-electric signal box, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

USSR. Catalogue of the Soviet pavilion at the International Press Exhibition, Cologne, 1928. From a private collection

Southend Transport
1907: The laying of wires for the electrification of the Southend-on-Sea trams. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Electric tramway generator, 19th century
Electric tramway generator, 19th-century artwork. This is the power generation room for an electric tramway system in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Tram electrical systems, 19th century
Tram electrical systems, 19th-century artwork. Electrification of trams (also called streetcars) took place in the 1880s and 1890s

Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway
Professors Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Electric Exhibition in 1882

All products are expertly crafted, using premium materials, tailored to your specifications and promptly shipped

EDITORS COMMENTS

"Electrification: Illuminating the Path to Progress" A British Rail express Class 85 electric locomotive train charges forward, symbolizing the transformative power in transportation. Motor Bus London 1903: Witnessing the birth of electric-powered public transport, a milestone that revolutionized urban mobility. Lambeth fire station's breakdown lorry springs into action, showcasing how electrification enhanced emergency response and safety services. Train driver Charles Dutton takes charge in the cab of an electric express locomotive train, exemplifying skilled professionals at the forefront of this technological advancement. Train driver Tommy Heywood commands his British Rail express Class 85 electric locomotive with precision and expertise, embodying progress on rails powered by electricity. A railway signal illuminates the night sky, a testament to how electrification improved visibility and ensured efficient rail operations even after sunset. The Soviet Union pioneers dirigible construction as depicted in an illustration from USSR Builds Socialism (1933), highlighting their commitment to harnessing electricity for various purposes. "We smite the lazy workers" (1931) - An anonymous artwork reflecting societal transformation through electrification; emphasizing increased productivity and work ethic inspired by this revolutionary force. The Stalingrad Tractor Plant emerges as a symbol of industrial growth fueled by electricity in an illustration from USSR Builds Socialism (1933), illustrating its pivotal role in shaping Soviet society. "Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country" (1933): This powerful statement underscores how electricity was seen as integral to achieving communist ideals during that era—a catalyst for progress across all aspects of life. "Let's join shock detachments into combined shock brigades" (1931): An anonymous artwork urging collective effort towards embracing electrification fully—an invitation to unite forces for rapid societal transformation driven by electricity.