ABSTRACT
The history of rail transport development is directly linked with the advent of locomotives and improvements of their designs and their manufacturing. The first locomotive building process can be dated to 1801, with the construction of a steam road car (called the Camborne road engine) which had been designed by the British inventor, Richard Trevithick. The further transformation of that design was done by him with the assistance of John Steele in 1803-1804, when it was re-designed for usage on rails for the Penydarren Ironworks (Merthyr Tydfil, Wales). This locomotive is considered as the first real locomotive in the world. Historical records show that 10 tons of iron, 70 passengers and 5 wagons were drawn by the locomotive from the ironworks to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal. However, that locomotive was not as good as many other individual locomotives manufactured by other inventors.
