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{{Short description|Locomotive wheel arrangement}} {{Infobox steam wheel arrangement | name = 2-2-0 (Planet) | image = Planet replica.jpg | alt = | caption = Replica of the ''Planet'' at the Manchester Science Museum | image2 = | caption2 = <!--Equivalent classifications--> | hatnote = | UIC/Germany/Italy= 1A | French/Spanish = 110 | Turkish = 12 | Swiss = 1/2 | Russian = 1-1-0 <!--First tank engine version--> | date = | country = | locomotive = | railway = | designer = | builder = | evolvedfrom = | evolvedto = | mainbenefit = | maindrawback = <!--First tender engine version--> | date2 = 1830 | country2 = United Kingdom | locomotive2 = ''[[Planet (locomotive)|Planet]]'' | railway2 = [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]] | designer2 = [[Robert Stephenson]] | builder2 = | evolvedfrom2 = | evolvedto2 = | mainbenefit2 = | maindrawback2 = Worse adhesion without coupled wheels <!--First "True type" version--> | date3 = | country3 = | locomotive3 = | railway3 = | designer3 = | builder3 = | evolvedfrom3 = | evolvedto3 = | mainbenefit3 = | maindrawback3 = }} [[File:Макет пароходного дилижанса Черепановых.jpg|thumb|250px|Model (2002) of the steam locomotive constructed in Russia by the [[Cherepanovs]] (1834)]] [[File:L&MR Planet class, 1830 (Boys' Book of Locomotives, 1907).jpg|right|thumb|250px|Bury 2-2-0 for the London and Birmingham Railway]] Under the [[Whyte notation]] for the classification of [[steam locomotive]]s, '''2-2-0''' represents the [[wheel arrangement]] of two [[leading wheel]]s on one axle, two powered [[driving wheel]]s on one axle, and no [[trailing wheel]]s. This configuration, which became very popular during the 1830s, was commonly called the '''Planet''' type after the first locomotive, [[Robert Stephenson]]'s ''[[Planet (locomotive)|Planet]]'' of 1830.
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