THE SPLENDID BOOK 

 OF LOCOMOTIVES 



THE BEGINNING OF THE RAILWAY 

 LOCOMOTIVE 



IN a quiet spot not very far from West 

 Camborne is the hamlet of Penponds. The 

 average motorist or walker would pass the 

 place with just the comment that it was 

 pleasantly rural, but if he turned aside 

 and looked carefully at a small thatched 

 cottage, he would regret that it was appar- 

 ently tumbling fast to ruin; yet it was the 

 home of the real father of the locomotive 

 Richard Trevithick. 



There are many claimants to this honour, 

 and the average school history almost in- 

 variably gives it to George Stephenson. 

 Yet George Stephenson would have been 



