The layout was generally too large for smaller and lighter railways, where the more popular 0-6-0 wheel arrangement would often be found performing similar duties.

[1] In 1952, the Chrzanów works in Poland supplied 81 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge locomotives, which were later versions of the Russian P24 class.

[2][3] The "Fortes Rampes" Class of 0-8-0 was designed by Jules Petit for the Chemins de Fer du Nord.

The narrow gauge Heeresfeldbahn class HF 160 D were developed for wartime service during the Second World War.

Twelve of these locomotives, a heavier version of the Class S, were built at the Salt River workshops in Cape Town with the first being delivered in October 1947.

The Class S1 was noted for its efficiency and economy and could cope with block loads of up to 2,000 long tons (2,032 tonnes).

Another locomotive was the Prussian G8.1 named the G class in Sweden which was ordered by the national railway company during WWI in 1916, but delivery was delayed until 1918.

Two examples of 0-8-0T tank locomotives were built by Archibald Sturrock of the United Kingdom's Great Northern Railway in 1866, but the design was not perpetuated.

A tender locomotive version was introduced on the Barry Railway Company in 1889 to haul coal trains.

Francis Webb of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) built 282 examples of a compound 0-8-0 locomotive between 1892 and 1904.

In 1914, Manning Wardle of Leeds built a side-tank engine called Katharine for the Bridge Water Collieries system.

Beginning in 1844, Ross Winans developed a series of 0-8-0 types for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), starting with a vertical-boiler design where the crankshaft was directly above and geared to the rear driving wheel.

In late 1847, the B&O moved to abandon geared drives and, in 1848, Baldwin delivered the first of a series of 0-8-0 freight engines.

This was the standard heavy switcher locomotive of the USRA types, of which 175 examples were built by ALCO, Baldwin and Lima for many different railroads in the United States.

Built in its own Juniata Shops, the Pennsylvania Railroad class C1, at 278,000 lb, was the heaviest two-cylinder 0-8-0 switcher ever produced.