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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. ==Equivalent classifications== Other equivalent classifications are: *[[UIC classification]]: '''1A''' (also known as German classification and [[Italian classification]]) *[[French classification]]: '''110''' *[[Turkish classification]]: '''12''' *[[Swiss classification]]: '''1/2''' ==History== ===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 = 277–292 }}</ref> ===North America=== [[Tom Thumb (locomotive)|Tom Thumb]], the first American-built steam locomotive used on a common-carrier railroad, built by Peter Cooper in 1830 was a gear-driven 2-2-0, but the type was not perpetuated. ===Ireland=== The [[Dublin and Kingstown Railway]] used 2-2-0 in 1834 including ''[[Hibernia (locomotive)|Hibernia]]'' designed by [[Richard Roberts (engineer)|Richard Roberts]] and built by [[Sharp, Roberts and Company]], and ''Vauxhall'' built [[George Forrester and Company]].<ref>Science Museum, The British Railway Locomotive 1803-1853, H.M.S.O., 1958. pp.12-13.</ref> ===Russia=== [[Cherepanov steam locomotive|The first Russian-built steam locomotive]] was a 2-2-0 built by the [[Cherepanovs]] (father and son) in 1833-1834.<ref>Le Fleming, H.M. and Price, J.H. ''Russian Steam Locomotives'', p 23, John Marshbank Ltd, London, 1960</ref> ==Decline of the 2-2-0== By 1840 the 2-2-0 tender type had largely been superseded by the [[2-2-2]] configuration. However, there are a few examples of later [[tank engines]], thus [[William Bridges Adams]] of the [[Fairfield Locomotive Works]] ({{coord|51.5312|-0.0219|format=dms|display=inline}}) in [[Bow, London|Bow]] supplied a 2-2-0 [[tank locomotive|well tank]] to the [[Società per le Strade Ferrate Romane|Roman Railway]] in 1850.<ref>Hamilton Ellis, ''The pictorial history of railways,'' Hamlyn, 1968, p.58.</ref> Also [[Dugald Drummond]] of the [[London and South Western Railway]] introduced his [[LSWR C14 class|C14 class]] 2-2-0T in 1906, for [[Push–pull train|Auto trains]], but this design was not successful and several of the locomotives were rebuilt to [[0-4-0]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Whyte types}} [[Category:2-2-0 locomotives]] [[Category:1830 in rail transport]] [[Category:Whyte notation|2,2-2-0]]
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