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NZR E class 2-6-6-0T Mallet. The sole NZR E class locomotive of 1906 was the only 2-6-6-0T locomotive ever built for and used by the New Zealand Railways Department. It was built at the Petone Workshops in Wellington and was designed for use on the world famous Rimutaka Incline. Numbered 66, making it E 66, it spent the first part of its ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Locomotives classified 2-6-0 under the Whyte notation of locomotive axle arrangements. ... Maine Central class P 2-6-0;
The equivalent UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements is (1C)C or (1'C)C. Pages in category "2-6-6-0 locomotives" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
On these early 2-6-0 locomotives, the leading axle was merely used to distribute the weight of the locomotive over a larger number of wheels. It was therefore essentially an 0-8-0 with an unpowered leading axle and the leading wheels did not serve the same purpose as, for example, the leading trucks of the 4-4-0 American or 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Steam tank locomotives of the 2-6-0 wheel arrangement in Whyte notation ... Pages in category "2-6-0T locomotives"
Designed by George Hughes, chief mechanical engineer of the LMS, and built at the ex-L&YR works at Horwich and the ex-LNWR works at Crewe.The inspiration came from a Caledonian Railway 2-6-0 design at the grouping, however the cylinders were too large for the LMS's English section's loading gauge, resulting in Hughes having to adapt the concept. [3]
The design was derived from the Ivatt-designed Class 2 2-6-0, with a reduced cab to enable it to fit into a universal loading gauge, and other standard fittings, most notably a taller chimney, others including the lack of an Ivatt dome and side plates connecting the two sections of the engine. Like the LMS predecessor the BR design had a tender ...
In February 1921, the SAR placed a single experimental Class GA Garratt 2-6-0+0-6-2 locomotive in service. It was ordered from Beyer, Peacock & Company in 1914, together with the order for the narrow gauge Class NG G11 Garratts, but wartime hostilities also delayed its delivery until 1920.