#0-4-4

[hazel-of-sodor]

H&PR 0-4-4T and 4-4-4T

[opelman]

But if I should become a stranger you know that it would make me more than sad... by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Caledonian Railway pair 419 and 828 steam south over Avon Viaduct on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway under gloomy skies at the end of an "In Search of Steam"/Scottish Railway Preservation Society photo charter. Locomotives: Caledonian Railway 439 Class 0-4-4T 419 and 812 Class 0-6-0 828. Location: Avon Viaduct, Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, Falkirk, Scotland.

[angryskarloey]

The Great Western 3521 Class - that most wayward of locomotives:

Their first form was an 0-4-2T - with a short coupled wheelbase and and exceedingly long one overall. They displayed a marked reluctance to remain on the rails and were later modified...

Into 0-4-4Ts, with short-wheelbase rear bogies - this did little to aid matters and the class were still apt to sway alarmingly at speed - they were in this form used to work West Country expresses after the end of Broad Gauge and were the cause of a bad accident.

They were then rebuilt again - back to front! As 4-4-0 tender engines they at once became far more attractive as well as more stable - they continued in their work for many more years, reformed characters - they lasted into the 30s, with several receiving larger, tapered boilers and superheaters - while this was an obvious improvement on power it was however the end of their good looks: