The 4-Wheel (Korean 사륜, Japanese 4輪) class locomotives were a class of steam tank locomotives with 0-4-0

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introduced by the Gyeongbu Railway Company in April 1906 for use on the

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. The

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in 1899 built a number of 0-4-0 tank locomotives for the

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in 1899. The Gyeongbu Railway Company obtained two of these in April 1906 for use on the

opened that year. The

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(''Sentetsu'') was founded on 1 July 1906 with the acquisition of the Gyeongbu Railway, and used the two locomotives on the Gyeongui Line for shunting and short-haul trains. They were likely retired prior to 1938, as they were not listed in Sentetsu's general renumbering of that year.

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