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The first British locomotives to use this wheel arrangement were the 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge 4-4-0 tank engine designs which appeared from 1849. The first British tender locomotive class, although of limited success, was the broad gauge Waverley class of the Great Western Railway , designed by Daniel Gooch and built by Robert ...
The New South Wales Government Railways F351 (later X10) class 2-4-0 tank locomotives were intended to haul suburban passenger trains in Sydney, and delivered in 1885 - 1887. After a derailment incident, from 1901, the entire class was withdrawn from passenger work. These locomotives were then allocated to shunting, yard and depot duties.
The notation 0-4-0T indicates a tank locomotive of this wheel arrangement on which its water and fuel is carried on board the engine itself, rather than in an attached tender. In Britain, the Whyte notation of wheel arrangement was also often used for the classification of electric and diesel-electric locomotives with side-rod-coupled driving ...
The earliest recorded 0-4-2 locomotives were three goods engines built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Stanhope and Tyne Railway in 1834. [1] The first locomotive built in Germany in 1838, the Saxonia, was also an 0-4-2. In the same year Todd, Kitson & Laird built two examples for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, one of which, LMR ...
A rear view of the same locomotive. The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) 0298 Class or Beattie Well Tank is a class of British steam locomotive. They are 2-4-0 WT s, originally built between 1863 and 1875 for use on passenger services in the suburbs of London, but later used on rural services in South West England.
Forney design. Forney locomotives include the following characteristics: A 0-4-4 RT wheel arrangement, that is four driving wheels followed by a truck with four wheels (though the term has become somewhat generic; many small tank engines of various wheel arrangements have been called Forneys). No flange on the second pair of driving wheels.
Prototype LSWR T7 4-2-2-0. This unusual wheel arrangement was first used 1884 by Francis Webb in LNWR No. 3026, a 3-cylinder rebuild of a Metropolitan 4-4-0 Tank engine. In 1893, the arrangement was used by Frederick Charles Winby for the locomotive James Toleman, built by Hawthorn Leslie & Company. It was exhibited at the World's Columbian ...
Front of engine to the left. 2-4-4 Mason Bogie locomotive #6 on the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad as built in 1886. Lithuanian Tk Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, 2-4-4 is a steam locomotive with two unpowered leading wheels followed by four powered driving wheels and four ...