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==Overview== With only a few known exceptions, the Adriatic wheel arrangement was usually used on [[tank locomotive]]s, for which various suffixes to indicate the type of tank would be added to the wheel arrangement, for example {{nowrap|2-6-4T}} for an engine with side-tanks. ===Tender locomotives=== The earliest known example was the [[South African Class 6Z 2-6-4|South African Class 6Z]], designed by [[Cape Government Railways]] (CGR) Chief Locomotive Superintendent [[Hazlitt Beatty]] in 1901. The first engines of the class were modified [[2-6-2]] Prairie locomotives which were equipped with two-axle trailing bogies. In 1902, more were placed in service, but built with the {{nowrap|2-6-4}} wheel arrangement. The latter were the first known tender locomotives in the world to be built with this wheel arrangement.<ref name="Durrant" >{{Durrant-Twilight|page=11}}</ref><ref name="Neilson">Neilson, Reid works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser</ref><ref name="Holland 1"/> ===Tank locomotives=== [[Tank engine]]s with the [[2-6-4T]] wheel arrangement were produced for many different railway systems worldwide and were mainly used for freight and suburban passenger working. They have been less successful on express passenger trains. The earliest known example also originated in South Africa, the [[South African Class D 2-6-4T|Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway's 55 Tonner]] of 1898.<ref name="Holland 1">{{Holland-Vol 1|pages=52-54, 56, 120, 122, 126}}</ref><ref name="Holland 2">{{Holland-Vol 2|page=136}}</ref><ref name="Paxton-Bourne">{{Paxton-Bourne|pages=29, 45, 112, 156}}</ref>
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