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The SLS early steam locomotives resource page
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This section of the SLS website covers the evolution of the early steam locomotive.

C J Bowen Cooke was the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LNWR. He wrote a book entitled British Locomotives. The first Chapter covers early locomotives up to the Rainhill Trials of 1829. The textual content and diagrams from that first chapter * have been transcribed from a copy of the second edition of the book dating from 1894. Why write new copy when an eminent engineer has done it for us! Although the book is out of copyright a reference to the publisher has been included here for courtesy purposes. (Whittaker & Co of London)

Web site of graphic designer - Richard Green with short, but good, summary of the early locomotives built up to, and including, Locomotion of 1825.