Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-6-0+0-6-2 represents the wheel arrangement of an articulated locomotive with two separate swivelling engine units, arranged back to back with the boiler and cab suspended between them. Each engine unit has two leading wheels in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.
WAGR M class no. M388, the first 2-6-0+0-6-2 locomotive
Western Australian Government Railways MSA class Garratt locomotive no MSA468, c. 1930
Restored SAR Class NG G11 no. 54 Solly at Chelsea, 3 April 1990
2-6-0+0-6-2 Norfolk Hero
The Whyte notation is a classification method for steam locomotives, and some internal combustion locomotives and electric locomotives, by wheel arrangement. It was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte, and came into use in the early twentieth century following a December 1900 editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal.
Whyte notation from a handbook for railroad industry workers published in 1906