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The LMS Stanier Class 4P 3-Cylinder 2-6-4T is a class of steam locomotives designed for work over the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway route. All 37 were built in 1934 at Derby Works and were numbered 2500–2536.
- LMS Stanier 3-Cylindered 2-6-4 Tanks
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Shortly after his arrival to the LMS, Stanier started the long scheme of equipping the railway with a modern fleet of steam locomotives, suitable for both current and future traffic needs. One area of the UK’s largest railway company that required new motive power was the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR). To address the need for engines ...
Although withdrawal came early on, one member of the class, the first to be built, was saved for preservation and now apart of the National Collection at the National Railway MuseumYork. This engine, No.2500, has mostly spent its years in the National Collection as a static display but has been in steam for a small amount of time. There are current...
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The third cylinder was provided to allow increased acceleration between the many stops on the LTS. Originally it was planned to produce 45 engines of this class but the last seven were completed with two cylinders only.
Nov 4, 2016 · For example, the last five scheduled Fowler ‘Patriot’ 4-6-0s, Nos. 5552-6, emerged instead as the first Stanier ‘Jubilees’, and the last five Fowler 2-6-4Ts, authorised as Nos. 2425-9, actually appeared instead as the first five Stanier three-cylinder 2-6-4Ts, Nos. 2500-4.
Feb 22, 2015 · LMS 3-Cylindered Stanier 2-6-4T No. 2500 was the first of the 37 express passenger tank locomotives designed specifically for the London Tilbury and Southend line of the London Midland & Scottish railway (LMS) as they were too powerful for mixed-traffic work.
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Stanier was not at all pleased, ordering it promptly removed and replaced with the normal LMS cover. Due to a higher boiler pressure than the Crabs the cylinders were 3" smaller in diameter and so the cylinders were able to be mounted horizontally: the only Stanier design to do so.
The particular engines which Mr. Cox has described, the 3-cylinder 4-6-0 engines, on tests, working trains under the control of a dynamometer, have burned from 301b. per sq. ft of grate per hour up to nearly 100lb. per sq. ft. of grate per hour perfectly satisfactorily.