LNER Class A3 No. 2506 Salmon Trout

Category:4-6-2 steam locomotives
Category:4-6-2 locomotives
Category:Gresley Locomotives
Category:Scrapped locomotives
Category:Scrapped steam locomotives
Category:Tender locomotives
Category:British locomotives
Category:British steam locomotives
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:LNER locomotives
Category:Doncaster Works locomotives
Category:LNER A1/A3 Class
Category:Locomotives
Category:Built in 1929
Category:United Kingdom
Category:Standard gauge locomotives
Category:4 foot 8 1⁄2 inch gauge
Category:Six-coupled locomotives
Category:British Railways
Category:Passenger locomotives
Category:Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
LNER Class A3 No. 2506 Salmon Trout was a class A1/A3 4-6-2 steam locomotive that was built for the London and North Eastern Railway by the LNER's own Doncaster Works in 1934.
== History ==
LNER Class A3 No. 2506 Salmon Trout was constructed in 1934 by the LNER's own Doncaster Works, and it entered service on the lines by the London and North Eastern Railway. When Edward Thomspon succeeded Sir Nigel Gresley, No. 2506 was renumbered to 41 under Edward Thomspon's renumbering scheme.
After the 1948 Nationalization had created British Railways/British Rail No. 2506 was renumbered from 41 to 60041 by British Rail.
It was withdrawn from service in December 1965 when British Rail began replacing steam locomotives to diesel and electric locomotives, and it was scrapped at St Margaret's Shed, Edinburgh in April 1966. With only some of it surviving into preservation, and the said parts of No. 2506 Salmon Trout that had survived into preservation were its boiler, cylinders and its chimney being the only parts left of No. 2506 Salmon Trout.
==Gallery==
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