pannier tank

English

Nearly new GW 0-6-0PT (pannier tank) at Old Oak Common Locomotive Yard, pre-Nationalisation

Noun

pannier tank (plural pannier tanks)

1. (rail transport) A type of tank fitted to both sides of the boiler of a tank locomotive.
   • 1954 October, W. A. Tuplin, “Pannier Tank Engines of the Great Western Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 677:

     The 0-6-0 tank engine has long been a fairly common type on British railways, but with side tanks or saddle tank. The pannier tank combines the good features of these two. It leaves both the running board and the top of the boiler clear, facilitating access to the motion, and permitting the use of standard boiler mountings. It seems to be a sound design, but while Swindon [locomotive works] uses it extensively, no one else uses it at all.

2. A tank locomotive fitted with this type of tank.

Related terms

• saddle tank

Further reading

• pannier tank on Wikipedia.Wikipedia