Abstract
In Meiji era, there was a steam locomotive engineer who was from UK. His name was Richard Francis Trevithick. His grandfather was Richard Trevithick. He is famous as an inventor of steam locomotive. Richard Francis Trevithick worked for Kobe works of the Imperial Government Railways. In Japan Richard Francis Trevithick is famous as a builder and designer of the first steam locomotive built in Japan. He was a member of the Institution of the Mechanical Engineers. He sent photographs and blue prints and letters to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. They were remained at archive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Author checked the photographs and blue prints and letters. They show the situation of Kobe works of the Imperial Government Railways in Meiji era. That includes the result of the examination of the new locomotive. In those photographs, there are photographs when completed of the first locomotive built in Japan. The existence of the photographs were known but the fact was not known that those photographs were taken when completed.
