GER Class A55 [SEP] designer
GER Class A55
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.
Background.
The locomotive was built for purely political purposes in order to block the passage through Parliament of a new rival scheme for an electric railway.
The Decapod was built in 1902 to a design by the GER Chief Draughtsman, Fred Russell under the supervision of
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