History of railways

1       Early history

   The invention of the railway started in the 16^th century. The road of the rail was called a wagonway; it was called a wagonway, because of the horses, which pulled wagons on the rails, and it was the start of modern railroads. After two centuries of inventing the wagonways the wood in wheels and in the rails had been replaced by iron because it can last longer than wood. In 1789, William Jessup from England designed the flanged wheels for the first wagons which were grooved and had better grip on the rail.

Steam engines made a great jump to the invention of the modern railroad and trains. There was a man called Samuel Homfray in the 19^th century who wanted to change and replace the horse-drawn carts by a steam-powered vehicle, but he didn’t build it. After him came Richard Trevithick and he built the first steam-powered vehicle. The first trip for it was on 22^nd  February 1804; it  took nearly two hours between Darron in the town of  Merthyr Tydfil in Wales to the bottom of the valley, which is called Abercynnon. It pulled a load of 10 tons of iron at a distance of nearly 9 miles carrying 70 men and five extra wagons.

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