In 1804 the English engineer Richard Trevithick replaced the horse team, which pulled wagons on the steel tracks, with the steam engine. That event from 200 years ago is considered as the development of the first prototype for the railroad engine. George Stephenson in 1814 succeeds in constructing the first prototype of the modern railroad steam engine (locomotive).
Not long after this, in 1825 the first railway line Stockton – Darlington 40 kilometers long, speed of 19 kilometers per hour was opened.
Following the occupation in 1878, the Austro – Hungarian authorities from 1882 started building narrow-gauged railways and the whole railway net in Bosnia and Herzegovina was finished by the end of the 19th century.
With this railway, the railroads from Slavonski Brod, through Bosanski Brod and up to the Adriatic coast were connected and that with: Metković, then Dubrovnik (Gruž), and Herceg Novi and Zelenika.
The first section of the railway in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which connected Mostar and Metković in a length of 42,3 kilometers, was put into use on June 14th 1885. The construction of the railroad net in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of the 19th century integrated Bosnia and Herzegovina in the transport network of that time.
