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usage may be different.'' A dock shunter, "dock tank", or "docksider", is a

locomotive A locomotive is a rail transport, rail vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. Traditionally, locomotives pulled trains from the front. However, Push–pull train, push–pull operation has become common, and in the pursuit for ...

(formerly

steam Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is inv ...

but now usually diesel) used for shunting

wagons A wagon (or waggon) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draft animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are immediately distinguished from ...

in the vicinity of

docks The word dock () in American English refers to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore). In British English, the term is not used the same way as in American Engli ...

. It is usually of

0-4-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. The wheels on the earliest four-coupled locomotives were ...

0-6-0 is the Whyte notation designation for steam locomotives with a wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles, and no trailing wheels. Historically, this was the most common wheel arrangement used o ...

wheel arrangement In rail transport, a wheel arrangement or wheel configuration is a system of classifying the way in which wheels are distributed under a locomotive. Several notations exist to describe the wheel assemblies of a locomotive by type, position, and c ...

and has a short

wheelbase In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the horizontal distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels. For road vehicles with more than two axles (e.g. some trucks), the wheelbase is the distance between the steering (front ...

and large buffers. These features make it suitable for negotiating sharp curves.

Examples

* GWR 1101 Class * GWR 1361 Class * GWR 1366 Class * LSWR B4 class *

LB&SCR E2 class The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) E2 class was a class of steam locomotives designed by Lawson Billinton, intended for shunting and short distance goods trains. Ten examples were built between 1913 and 1916. Some of these ...

SR USA class The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S100 Class is a steam locomotive that was designed for Shunting (rail), switching (shunting) duties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. After the war, they were used on railways ...

* British Rail Class 07 * LMS Fowler Dock Tank * NLR Class 75 * Bagnall 0-4-0ST "Alfred" and "Judy" * LSWR G6 class * LNER J63 *

LNWR Dock Tank The LNWR 317 class, (also known as Saddle Tank Shunter, Dock Tank or Bissel Tank) consisted of a class of 20 square saddle-tanked steam locomotives built by the London and North Western Railway at their Crewe Works between 1896 and 1901. They ...

* LNER Y9 * Caledonian Railway 498 Class
LNER J88

Examples

See also