Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway. The

Caledonian Railway The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively extended its network and reached Edinburgh an ...

Locomotive Works were originally at

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but moved to St. Rollox,

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, in 1856. The locomotive classes are listed under the names of the railway's

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Locomotives

The class number used for

engines was the stock number of the first member of the class to reach traffic. Hence earlier numbered classes could well have appeared later in time. Until the appointment of

Dugald Drummond Dugald Drummond (1 January 1840 – 8 November 1912) was a Scottish steam locomotive engineer. He had a career with the North British Railway, LB&SCR, Caledonian Railway and London and South Western Railway. He was the older brother of the eng ...

, unlike most other British railways, almost all engines had outside cylinders, and the 0-6-0 arrangement was quite rare, goods engines being of type 2-4-0 or 0-4-2. Passenger engines were normally 2-2-2.

Robert Sinclair 1847-1856

Benjamin Conner 1856-1876

George Brittain 1876-1882

Dugald Drummond Dugald Drummond (1 January 1840 – 8 November 1912) was a Scottish steam locomotive engineer. He had a career with the North British Railway, LB&SCR, Caledonian Railway and London and South Western Railway. He was the older brother of the eng ...
1882-1890

Hugh Smellie Hugh Smellie (3 March 1840, in Ayr – 19 April 1891, at Bridge of Allan) was a Scottish engineer. He was locomotive superintendent of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway from 1870–1878, the Glasgow and South Western Railway from 1878&ndas ...
1890

Appointed 1 September 1890. Died 19 April 1891.

John Lambie 1891-1895

Unless otherwise stated these were all built at the Caledonian Railway's

St. Rollox railway works Glasgow Works, formerly the St Rollox Works, is a railway rolling stock heavy maintenance and repair works established in the 1850s in the Glasgow district of Springburn by the Caledonian Railway Company, and known locally as 'the Caley'. Own ...

John F. McIntosh 1895-1914

Unless otherwise stated these were all built at the Caledonian Railway's

William Pickersgill William Pickersgill (1861 – 2 May 1928) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Caledonian Railway from 1914 until Grouping in 1923. He was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Northern Division of t ...
1914-1923

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

{{main article, Locomotives of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Caledonian Railway locomotives still existing in 1923 were taken into the stock of the

London, Midland and Scottish Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally u ...

(LMS). The LMS built some locomotives to Caledonian Railway designs after 1923.

Preservation

Only three Caledonian Railway locomotives survive. *

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No. 123 * 439 Class 419 * 812 Class 828

Sources

* Baxter, B., (1984) ''British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923 Vol.4'', Moorland Publishing * Haresnape, B. & Rowledge, P. (1982) ''Drummond Locomotives, a Pictorial History'', Ian Allan

References

Caledonian Railway *