2-2-2-2

Locomotive wheel arrangement thumb|No. 687, LNWR 2-2-2-2T thumb|LNWR Greater Britain Class, engine No. 2053 Greater Britain thumb|LNWR John Hick Class, engine No. 1535 Henry Maudslay Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-2-2 could represent either the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, four powered but uncoupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels; or of two independent leading axles (not in a bogie), two driving wheels, and two trailing wheels. Usage The (2-2)-2-2 wheel arrangement, or (2-2) -2-2,Baxter Bertram British locomotive catalogue 1825-1923 Moorland Publishing 1 1977 Buxton 45 & 67 978-0-903485-50-0 was first used on five locomotives introduced on the Eastern Counties Railway by John Chester Craven in 1846/7.Baxter 1977 45 The 2-(2-2)-2 version was used by Francis Webb of the London and North Western Railway between 1885 and 1887 on two unique divided drive compound tank locomotives, No. 687 (1885) and No. 600 (1887). He then produced two tender engine classes each of ten locomotives: the LNWR Greater Britain Class (1892–1894) and the LNWR John Hick Class (1894–1898). The locomotives were never reliable and Webb's successor George Whale withdrew them all within three years of taking up office in 1903.Bertram Baxter British locomotive catalogue 1825-1923 2B Moorland 1979 196 See also John Hick (politician) References left 22,2-2-2-2