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    Replica of world’s first electric traction motor on show

    Jun 25, 2018 1 minute
    By Hugh Dougherty

    A WORKING replica of what is claimed to be the world’s first electric traction motor has gone on display at the Grampian Transport Museum.

    The original was used as one of four, powering Robert, which made history by running successfully on the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1842. That was 37 years before Siemens’ electric tramway, often viewed as the first application of electricity to rail motive power, ran at the 1879 Berlin Exhibition.

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