page_title: GER Class A55
section_title: Rebuilt
hierarchical_section_title: GER Class A55 / Rebuilt
caption_attribution_description: The Great Eastern "Decapod", rebuilt
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: As the locomotive was therefore surplus to requirements, it was rebuilt in 1906, and converted into an 0-8-0 freight tender engine. The rebuild included a new boiler with a Belpaire firebox and a standard GE high-sided goods locomotive tender.
  Number 20 was then assigned to March district for hauling coal trains, but proved no more capable than the Class G58 locomotives. The design was therefore not repeated, and the locomotive remained the only eight-coupled engine of the GER.
  It was scrapped in 1913 as nonstandard after a short working life.
caption: As rebuilt to an 0-8-0
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