Austria In 1899,
Karl Gölsdorf introduced his famous 180.00 class for the Austrian State Railway, an 0-10-0 for mountain regions which had a remarkably low axle load. It employed the
Gölsdorf axle system and had the drive, unusually, on the fourth axle. The class existed both as simple expansion and as two-cylinder compound engines, and they later worked in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and France.
Canada Three 0-10-0 locomotives were owned by the
Canadian Pacific Railway.
China Sixteen narrow gauge 0-10-0 locomotives, built by
Baldwin Locomotive Works from 1924 to 1929, remained operational on the
Yunnan-Kopei Railway until 1990.
Finland no. 753, stored at
Haapamäki in Finland The
VR Class Vr3 0-10-0T was numbered in the range from 752 to 756 and nicknamed
Rooster. The first locomotive was ordered in 1924 from
Hanomag in Germany. No. 755 is stored at the
Finnish Railway Museum.
Germany The 0-10-0 type proved popular in Germany. Several types of freight tender locomotives of this arrangement were built between approximately 1905 and 1915, after which the wheel arrangement was abandoned in favor of the
2-10-0. Subsequent German locomotives of this type were
tank locomotives, including classes
BR82,
BR87,
BR940, BR941,
BR942-4,
BR945-17,
BR9419-21 and BR975.
Indonesia in
Sawahlunto, West Sumatra. The ''Staatspoorwegen ter Sumatara's Westkust'' (SSS) built a railway line on the west coast of
Sumatra from 1887 until 1896. This railway used to haul products from
Ombilin coal mines to the port of Teluk Bayur in
Padang. Severe terrain with 8% grades required a locomotive with great power. The
E10 was a rack tank steam locomotive employed in
West Sumatra, of which 22 were built from 1921 to 1928 by
Esslingen in
Germany and SLM (
Schweizerische Lokomotiv-und Maschinenfabrik) in Switzerland. The E10 has four cylinders, with two cylinders dedicated to drive the rack gears. The class E10 eventually consisted of 39 locomotives, of which the last seven engines were built in 1967 by
Nippon Sharyo, the last steam locomotives to be built by that firm. The class was used in regular service until the mid-1980s.
Japan Four 4100 class 0-10-0T locomotives, numbered from 4100 to 4103 and built by
Krauss-Maffei in Germany, were imported to Japan in 1912. Based on this design, a total of 39
4110 Class 0-10-0T locomotives, numbered from 4110 to 4148, were built in Japan in 1914 and 1917.There were also class 300-310, built by
Kisha Seizo in 1915–18. The last members of the class were withdrawn from service on
JNR in 1950, but some were sold to private freight railways and remained in service as late as 1971. Four of the locomotives were sent to the Korean Peninsula in 1938, but their subsequent fate is unknown.
Russia , 11 July 2010 The 0-10-0 type was the principal standard freight locomotive in Russia and was manufactured in very large numbers. The E class (Cyrillic Э, not to be confused with
Е-class), freight locomotive was made up of several sub-classes, all developed from the same original basic machine. The sub-classes included E, Em, , Esh, Eu, and Er.
St.Petersburg A number of both the Em and class received condensing tenders for working in areas where water supplies were scarce. These were designated Emk and Egk class respectively. However, these locomotives were experimental and the condensing tender was mainly used on the 2-10-0 SO19-series locomotive. The E class was the most numerous single class of locomotive in the world, with around 11,000 manufactured in Russia and other countries such as Czechoslovakia, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and Poland. This class even far outnumbered the German
DRB Class 52 2-10-0
Kriegslok. The class was eventually superseded by the SO class which can be considered a further development of the E class, the L class and the FD class . Despite being superseded, it was not replaced, and the class was widely used until the end of steam in Russia.
South West Africa no. 103, In 1911, the
Lüderitzbucht Eisenbahn (
Lüderitzbucht Railway) in
German South West Africa () placed six
Decapod locomotives in service, built in 1910 by
Henschel & Son for a
French colony in Africa. The engines were rejected by French inspectors, however, and they were purchased by the German government for £2,000 each in 1911, on behalf of the
Lüderitzbucht-Gesellschaft company who leased the
Lüderitzbucht Eisenbahn and shared the profits with the government. To protect the motion from wind-blown sand in the
Namib Desert, it had plate shields arranged along the full length of the engine, hinged on the running board to allow access to the motion. The locomotives were placed in service on the
Südbahn line from
Lüderitzbucht via
Seeheim to
Kalkfontein, where they formed the mainstay of motive power. None of these engines survived the
First World War.
Taiwan A steam locomotive of this form served the sole purpose of pushing passengers up to the highest altitude station, 勝興 (Shengxing), in Taiwan.
Thailand Two Hanomag 0-10-0 steam Locomotives, numbers 401 and 402, were imported from Germany in 1913 for service in Siam and were used on
standard gauge. In 1924 they were regauged to
metre gauge.
United Kingdom Only two 0-10-0 locomotives saw service on British railways. One was a suburban
tank locomotive prototype, built by
James Holden for the
Great Eastern Railway in 1902 and called
the Decapod. The other was a
tender locomotive,
No. 2290, built by the
Midland Railway in 1919, specifically for use as a
banker for the
Lickey Incline.
United States The 0-10-0 was not very popular in the United States and North America in general and probably fewer than seventy of this type were constructed. For switching work, large locomotives were preferred, and when more than four driven axles were required, the preference was for
articulated locomotives such as
0-6-6-0 and
0-8-8-0 Mallet engines. On mainlines, a with the added stability of its leading truck, or a
2-10-2 or
2-10-4 with room for larger fireboxes, were preferred. The first 0-10-0 in the United States was built to provide service on Madison Hill which, at 5.89%, has the steepest standard gauge grade in the country. It was a tank locomotive, designed in 1868 by Reuben Wells for the
Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad and named for its designer. The
Reuben Wells is on display at
the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. It is long and weighs 55 tons. 0-10-0 of 1907 Later 0-10-0 versions were delivered in 1891 to the
St. Clair Tunnel Company to haul trains between
Sarnia,
Ontario and
Port Huron, Michigan. The next were a series of 21 locomotives for
New York Central Railroad and its subsidiaries for hump yard work. Others included seven owned by
Illinois Central Railroad, fifteen by
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, two by
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and four, the heaviest built, for
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway. ==References==