The GER Class A55 or Decapod was an experimental steam locomotive with an 0-10-0 WT wheel arrangement designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. It was the first ten-coupled steam locomotive in Great Britain .

The Holden 0-10-0T No. 20 'Decapod' In the early 1900s, the Great Eastern Railway (GER) was threatened by the City & North Eastern Surburban Electric Railway - a scheme for an electric railway which would compete with the GER's lucrative commuter traffic.

One of the most famous GER locomotives was the massive 0-10-0 tank engine No. 20, universally known as the ‘Decapod’. Following the success of the City & South London and the Central London electric ‘tube’ railways, there was a rash of proposals for similar lines in London, two of which were in the north-east area.

2017年3月28日 · The GER Society account reports that "despite popular myth, the locomotive was never painted in blue livery and was not used in service - indeed, it was never 'handed over' to the Running Department in its original form.

Steam tank locomotives of the 0-10-0 wheel arrangement in Whyte notation. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 0-10-0T locomotives. The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

2018年4月19日 · It was the first ten-coupled steam locomotive in Great Britain. The locomotive was built for purely political purposes in order to block the passage through Parliament of a new rival scheme for an...

The GER Class A55, or Decapod, was an experimental 0-10-0T steam locomotive designed by Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) James Holden in 1902. The locomotive was built purely for political purposes in order to block the passage through Parliament of a new rival scheme for an electric railway...

Holden's piece-de-resistance was the 'Decapod' tank, a three cylinder 0-10-0 with a 200 psi boiler. This was designed to the order of the management to provide an engine which could accelerate a 300 ton train to 30 mph in 30 seconds.

Loose-Leaf book of notes, photographs and GER weight diagrams relating to GER locomotives c1920 compiled by the late George M. Rickards (in replacement binder) Mrs. Rickards, via W.O. Skeat [071]