0-4-0
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, '''''' represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. The wheels on the earliest four-coupled locomotives were connected by a single gear wheel, but from 1825 the wheels were usually connected with coupling rods to form a single driven set.
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- wheel arrangement
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- locomotive
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- WheelArrangement 0-4-0.svg
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22 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Usage
- Australia
- Austria
- Angola
- Finland
- Indonesia
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- South Africa
- Brunel gauge
- Standard gauge
- Cape gauge
- Narrow gauges
- United Kingdom
- Tank locomotives
- Tender locomotives
- United States
- Tank locomotives
- Tender locomotives
- 0-4-0 diesel locomotives
- References
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, ' represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. The wheels on the earliest four-coupled locomotives were connected by a single gear wheel, but from 1825 the wheels were usually connected with coupling rods to form a single driven set.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “0-4-0” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.