2-4-0

A 3 ft gauge 2-4-0 built for Central Sucre by the Vulcan Iron Works.

In Whyte notation, a '2-4-0' is a railroad steam locomotive that has two leading wheels followed by two coupled driving wheels, with no trailing wheels.
The equivalent UIC classification is '1'B'.
In the UK several classes of 2-4-0s were designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway, including the , the and the .

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