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0-8-4
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thumb|The wheel arrangement
Noun
Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has eight coupled driving wheels followed by four trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
en 1953 April J. M. Dunn Memories of the L.N.W.R. 0-8-4 Tank Engines Railway Magazine 237 The 0-8-4 with its 13 six-wheel coaches generally managed to keep "neck-and-neck" with the Tredegar 0-6-0 and its load of five or six coaches, but the combined effort made the welkin ring and excitement reigned among both the train-crews and passengers.
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