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 GER Class A55, or Decapod, was an experimental 0-10-0T steam locomotive designed by Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) James Holden in 1902.

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.

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The Great Eastern Railway's P43 class was the penultimate single-driver express locomotive built in Britain, before the GCR class 13. Although the GER was already using four-coupled passenger locomotives, its seven-foot wheels were used to pull light express trains.

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

In 1906 the locomotive was rebuilt to an eight-coupled tender locomotive known as the class A55R. It got a significantly lighter boiler with a conventional Belpaire firebox and the centre cylinder was removed. Since the length of the locomotive was …

The Decapod - Photographs of this famous locomotive and its ungainly 'technical rebuild'. Some images are not from our Collection (or have not yet been rescanned).

Similarly, the high-pressure rebuilds of the M15 class 2-4-2Ts were class 'M15R', and the 0-8-0 tender engine rebuild of the experimental A55 class 'decapod' 0-10-0WT was class 'A55R'. From 1902 twenty-one T19 2-4-0s were rebuilt with larger high-pressure Belpaire boilers (the 'Humpty-Dumpties'), and they were thus known as class 'T19R'.

GER Class A55; B. GER Class B74; C. GER Class C32; GER Class C53; GER Class C72; D. GER Class D27; GER Class D56; GER Class D81; GER Decapod; E. GER Class E22; GER Class E72; F. GER Class F48; G. ... GER Class S56; GER Class S69; T. GER Class T18; GER Class T19; GER Class T26; GER Class T77; Y. GER Class Y14; GER Class Y65