- 2-2-2
Under the
Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-2-2locomotive has twoleading wheel s, twodriving wheel s and twotrailing wheel s. This type was named Jenny Lind, after "Jenny Lind", a popular early 2-2-2 design, and sometimes Single, although that name more commonly means any kind of locomotive with a single pair of driving wheels.Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification : 1A1 (also known asGerman classification andItalian classification )French classification : 111Turkish classification : 13Swiss classification : 1/3In the UK some 2-2-2s were made by James Holden as a result of his experiments removing the
side rod from a2-4-0 .
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