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===Great Britain=== After early experience with the [[0-2-2]] configuration on the [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]], [[Robert Stephenson]] decided to build a locomotive with cylinders inside the [[Locomotive frame|frames]], for which a 2-2-0 was preferable.<ref>The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/railways/l4.html .</ref> The first such locomotive was ''Planet'', built in 1830 and the company went on to build a further eighteen examples for the railway. In 1835 five examples were supplied to the [[London and Greenwich Railway]].<ref>Bertram Baxter, British Locomotive Catalogue 1825-1923, Moorland Publishing, 1977, p.67.</ref> After 1836 [[Edward Bury]] built sixty-nine [[Bury Bar Frame locomotive|bar frame]] 2-2-0 locomotives for the [[London and Birmingham Railway]].<ref>Bertram Baxter, British Locomotive Catalogue 1825-1923, Moorland Publishing, 1977, p.7.</ref> The steam roller and traction engine company [[Aveling and Porter]] built a number of 2-2-0 locomotives, some of which were convertible traction engines.<ref>{{citation | last = Yeatman | first = D. | title = Lodge Hill & Upnor Railway | work = The Industrial Railway Record | publisher = Industrial Railway Society |date=December 1966 | issue = 12 | volume = 1 | url = http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/12/lodge_hill.htm | access-date = 21 August 2012 | pages = 277β292 }}</ref>
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