London Midland & Scottish Railway 2-6-4T No. 42500 (2500)
Bury, Lancashire, UK 		Location: East Lancashire Railway
Status: Display
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Posted: Dec 29, 2023 @ 13:12:45 by Russell Newman
The ex LMS Stanier 2-6-4T No. 2500, has now relocated on loan to the East Lancashire Railway at Bury in Lancashire, where it is now on display in the Bury Transport Museum there.
Posted: Dec 12, 2023 @ 15:12:21 by Russell Newman
The ex LMS Stanier 2-6-4T No. 2500 has now arrived at the Bury Transport Museum at East Lancashire Railway at Bury in Lancashire, for display much sooner then first thought where the locomotive is now inside the main museum building on loan to them from the National Railway Museum.
Posted: Dec 8, 2023 @ 16:12:28 by Anthony Sims
Following previous reports of No. 2500 going on loan to the Bury Transport Museum last week, the locomotive arrived at the museum on 8 December and has now gone on display.
Posted: Nov 26, 2023 @ 05:11:07 by Russell Newman
The ex LMS Stanier 2-6-4T No. 2500, could be joining former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 18inch-gauge 0-4-0ST "Wren", and soon sole surviving ex Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway "radial" 2-4-2T No. 1008, on display at the Bury Transport Museum at East Lancashire Railway at Bury in Lancashire on loan, as talks between the National Railway Museum and the Bury Transport Museum are currently underway to move the locomotive to Bury in 2024.
Posted: Jul 6, 2011 @ 12:07:04 by Steve Frost
There is a lot of talk about this classic design returning to the main line. What a thought! It hasn't run in preservation, so a thorough detailed overhaul would be necessary. As a tank loco with essentially a limited range the suggestion is that it would need to trail an auxiliary water tank, perhaps disguised as a milk tanker.
Posted: Nov 11, 2004 @ 13:11:23 by Steve Frost

Stanier's classic 2-6-4T look was one that continued through the Fairburn variants onto the BR standard tanks. But this is a representative of a smaller class of only 37 locos with three cylinders, all driving the centre axle. Associated mainly with the London, Tilbury and Southend route (note the 'Southend' destination board on the loco), they were seen elsewhere on the LMS system. The LT&SR was a former independent line taken over by the Midland which gave the LMS an unlikely incursion into LNER (and former Great Eastern) territory east of the capital.

This, the sole survivor, is part of the national collection and can now be seen at the National Railway Museum in York, having moved back from Bressingham some years ago.