The is a class of

0-10-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles and no trailing wheels. In the United Kingdom, this type is known ...

steam locomotives built by the

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR) and designed by

Hideo Shima was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train (Shinkansen). Shima was born in Osaka in 1901, and educated at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. His father was p ...

. A total of 39 locomotives were built by Kawasaki Shipyard (present-day

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (or simply Kawasaki) is a Japanese Public company, public multinational corporation manufacturer of motorcycles, engines, Heavy equipment (construction), heavy equipment, aerospace and Military, defense equipment, rolling stock and ships, headq ...

), as copies of the earlier Class 4100 0-10-0T locomotives imported from Maffei in Germany in 1912. Five members of the class were converted to standard gauge and sent to

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in 1939, four to the

Pyeongbuk Railway The Pyeongbuk Railway (Japanese: 平北鐵道株式會社, ''Heihoku Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha''; Korean: 평북철도주식회사, ''Pyeongbuk Cheoldo Jusikhoesa'') was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea. History The P ...

and one to the

Danpung Railway The Tanpō Railway (Japanese: 端豊鉄道株式会社, ''Tanpō Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha''; , ''Danpung Cheoldo Jusikhoesa''), was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea. History The name of the railway was formed from t ...

.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), p. 66 After the

partition of Korea The division of Korea began with the defeat of Japan in World War II. During the war, the Allied leaders considered the question of Korea's future after Japan's surrender in the war. The leaders reached an understanding that Korea would be li ...

in 1945, all five locomotives were taken over by the

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, but their subsequent fate is unknown be it was assumed that they were scrapped around between 1969 and 1976 . Some 4110s were sent to Taiwan during the occupation period. In 1945, all of them were classified as Taiwan Railways class EK900. None of them have preserved all of the EK900’s were scrapped between 1975 and 1980 .

Preserved examples

One Class 4110 remains in preservation: 4122 in Ebetsu, Hokkaido.

Gallery

Joseph Anton von Maffei 06.jpg, The Class 4100 steam locomotive built by Maffei in Germany

References

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Preserved examples

Gallery

See also

References