4-6-0

English

4-6-0 (plural 4-6-0s)

Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels on a leading truck followed by three sets of coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
- 1953 November, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
  Speaking of locomotive surefootedness, I was immensely impressed, on a recent journey with the down "Ulsterman" from Euston, when "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46168, The Girl Guide, cleanly lifted a well-filled 15-coach train of 471 tons tare and 500 tons gross out of the terminus without the service of any banking engine.