John Lambie was a
Scottish
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engineer. He was born in
Saltcoats
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,
Ayrshire
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, on 29 October 1833 and died in
Glasgow on 1 February 1895. He was
Locomotive Superintendent of the
Caledonian Railway from 1891 to 1895.
Career
John Lambie became Locomotive Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway on 1 April 1891. He came from a railway background as his father had been Traffic Manager of the
Wishaw and Coltness Railway until it was absorbed by the Caledonian Railway in 1848.
Innovations
John Lambie improved conditions for enginemen by fitting cab doors, better handrails and footsteps to locomotives. He improved on
Dugald Drummond's
4-4-0
4-4-0 is a locomotive type with a classification that uses the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement and represents the arrangement: four leading wheels on two axles (usually in a leading bogie), four po ...
design in 1894 and he introduced
condensing steam locomotives of the 4-4-0T and
0-4-4T
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-4 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and four trailing wheels on two axles. This type was only used ...
types for underground lines.
See also
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Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway
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Locomotives of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
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References
1833 births
1895 deaths
British railway pioneers
Scottish railway mechanical engineers
People from Saltcoats
Caledonian Railway people
Locomotive builders and designers
19th-century British businesspeople
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