0-4-2

English thumb Noun Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has four coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels. en 1952 Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis The Beauty of Old Trains 117 The 2-4-2 tank engines of the Great Eastern and the London and North Western were simply adaptations of 2-4-0 main-line engines; the 0-4-4 tank engine owed its parentage to the archaic 0-4-2 mixed traffic. en 1988 Edgar J. Larkin The Railway Workshops of Britain, 1823-1986 52 After five 0-4-2 saddle tanks in 1860, all other NLR motive power was constructed at Bow, and none of these early locomotives was fitted with a cab. en 1975 M. A. Rao Indian Railways 143 The 'Lord Falkland', which pulled the first train from Bombay to Thana on April 14, 1853 was built by the Vulcan Foundry in England and was a '2-4-0' tender engine. This was followed by other locomotives of the 2-4-0, 2-2-0 and 0-4-2 types, which continued in use for a number of years. thumb|0-4-2 wheel arrangement (front of locomotive is to the left) See also Anagrams en 024 2-4-0 4-2-0 4/20 420 4:20 en Rail transportation