Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway

Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway. The Caledonian Railway Locomotive Works were originally at Greenock but moved to St. Rollox, Glasgow, in 1856. The locomotive classes are listed under the names of the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineers.

Locomotives[]

The class number used for Caledonian Railway 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, 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.^[1]

Robert Sinclair 1847-1856[]

Wheel Arrangement	Date	Builder	No. built	Notes
2-2-2	1847-9	CR Greenock (30) Vulcan Foundry (12) Jones & Potts (10) Scott Sinclair (3)	55	13 rebuilt as 2-4-0, 3 as 2-2-2WT
	1848-52	Jones & Potts	6	all rebuilt 1857-65 as 2-4-0
	1854-5	CR Greenock	12
2-4-0	1854	George England	8
	1854-5	CR Greenock	13
	1855	CR Greenock	6
0-4-2	1847-9	R&W Hawthorn	3
	1847	Neilson & Mitchell	6
	1848	CR Greenock	5
	1849	CR Greenock	5
	1853	Neilson	4
	1855	CR Greenock	3
	1856-8	St. Rollox	8
2-4-0T	1854	Hawthorn of Leith	2
0-4-0ST	1853	CR Greenock	8	6 later rebuilt as 0-4-2T
0-4-0ST	1854-5	Hawthorn of Leith	1
0-4-2ST	1854-5	Hawthorn of Leith	2
2-2-2WT	1851	CR Greenock	3
0-4-0	1848	Fairbairn	2	1 rebuilt as 0-4-2T, both sold 1863
0-6-0	1849-50	Jones & Potts (5) CR Greenock (10)	15	later rebuilt to 0-4-2

Benjamin Conner 1856-1876[]

Wheel Arrangement	Dates	Builder	No. built	Notes
2-2-2	1859-64	St. Rollox	12	8 ft 2in wheels
	1875	St. Rollox	4	8 ft 2in wheels
	1864	St. Rollox	4	7 ft 2in wheels
	1871	A. Barclay	1	7 ft 2in wheels - Experimental design
0-4-2	1861-6	Neilson (34)	64
	1861-6	Dübs (30)	64
	1870-1	Dübs (18)	31
	1870-1	Neilson (13)	31
	1872-4	Neilson	40
2-4-0	1858-9	St. Rollox (4)	8
	1858-9	Neilson (4)	8	with steam tenders
	1860-3	St. Rollox (10)	25
		Neilson (9)
		Beyer-Peacock (6)
	1861-6	Neilson (9)	18
	1861-6	Dübs (9)	18
	1865-7	St. Rollox	11
	1865-6	Dübs	10
	1866-70	Neilson	37
	1867-73	St. Rollox (10)	28
	1867-73	Neilson (18)	28
	1868	Caledonian Railway, Perth	2
	1869-74	Dübs (14)	35
	1869-74	Neilson (21)	35
	1870	Neilson	16
	1872-3	Dübs	31
	1874	Dübs	7
	1875	Neilson	4
	1874-8	Dübs (19)	29
	1874-8	Neilson (10)	29
4-4-0	1877	Neilson	5
0-4-0PT	1862	Neilson	4
0-4-0PT	1865	A. Barclay	2
0-4-0ST	1867	Neilson	1
	1869-72	A. Barclay	6
	1872-4	A. Barclay	2
0-4-0T	1873	Dübs	2
0-4-0ST	1876-81	Neilson	14
0-4-4WT	1873-4	Neilson	4
0-6-0ST	1870	Neilson	2
	1871-5	Neilson (8)	14
	1871-5	Dübs (6)	14
	1873	Neilson	1
0-6-0	1858	Neilson	1
	1872	St. Rollox	1
	1874-7	Dübs	39

George Brittain 1876-1882[]

Wheel Arrangement	Class	Date	Builder	No. built	LMS power classification	LMS numbers	Notes
2-4-0		1878	Dübs	10
0-4-2	670	1878-82	Dübs	30	U	17000-17020
4-4-0	179	1882	Dübs	10	1P	14100-14107	"Oban bogie"
0-4-0T		1878	Neilson	1			Crane tank
2-4-0T		1879	Dübs	12
2-4-2T		1880	Neilson	15
2-2-2WT		1881	St. Rollox	1			For officer's saloon
0-6-0ST		1881	Neilson	6	1F	16150	Withdrawn before LMS number could be applied

Dugald Drummond 1882-1890[]

Wheel Arrangement	Class	Date	Builder	No. built	LMS power classification	LMS numbers	Notes
4-2-2	123	1886	Neilson	1	1P	14010	Won Gold medal at Edinburgh International Exhibition 1886
4-4-0		1888-91	St. Rollox	12	1P	14108-14115	"Coast bogies"
		1884-91	Neilson (10) St. Rollox (18)	28	1P	14290-14309
		1886	Dübs	1	1P	14296	Exhibition engine - related to "66" class
0-4-2ST		1885	St. Rollox	2	U	15000-15001
0-4-4T	171	1884-91	St. Rollox	24	1P	15100-15114
0-4-0ST	264	1885-90	St. Rollox	20	U	16008-16025
0-6-0ST		1888	St. Rollox	6	U	16100-16102
0-6-0ST		1887-8	St. Rollox	30	3F	16202-16224
0-6-0	294	1883-95	Neilson (35) St. Rollox (128)	163	2F	17230-17392

Hugh Smellie 1890[]

Appointed 1 September 1890. Died 19 April 1891.^[2]

John Lambie 1891-1895[]

Unless otherwise stated these were all built at the Caledonian Railway's St. Rollox railway works

Wheel Arrangement	Class	Date	No. built	LMS power classification	LMS numbers	Notes
4-4-0		1894	6	1P	14308-14310
4-4-0T		1893-4	12	1P	15020-15031
0-4-4T	19	1895	10	2P	15115-15124
0-4-0ST		1892	2			Second-hand - built 1872-3 by Dübs and Company
0-6-0ST		1895	5	3F	16225-16229

John F. McIntosh 1895-1914[]

Unless otherwise stated these were all built at the Caledonian Railway's St. Rollox railway works

Wheel Arrangement	Class	Date	No. built	LMS power classification	LMS numbers	Notes
4-4-0	721	1896	15	2P	14311-14325	Dunalastair I
	766	1897–98	15	2P/3P	14326-14336 & 14430-14433	Dunalastair II - 4 rebuilt 1914 with superheaters
	900	1899–1900	16	2P/3P	14337-14348 & 14434-14437	Dunalastair III - 6 rebuilt 1914-30 with superheaters
	140	1904–10	19	2P/3P	14349-14365 & 14438-14439	Dunalastair IV - 4 rebuilt 1915-22 with superheaters
	139	1910–12	11	3P	14440-14449	Schmidt superheater
	43	1913–14	11	3P	14450-14460	Robinson superheater
4-6-0	55	1902–05	9	3P	14600-14608
	908	1906–07	10	3P	14609-14618
	49	1903	2	4P	14750-14751	rebuilt 1911 with Schmidt superheaters
	903	1906	5	4P	14752-14755	"Cardeans", rebuilt 1911 with Schmidt superheaters
0-4-4T	92	1897	12	2P	15125-15136
	879	1900	10	2P	15137-15146
		1899	12	1P	15147-15158
	439	1900–14	68	2P	15159-15226
0-4-0ST		1896	1	U	16000	acquired second hand 1897. Built by A. Barclay
0-4-0ST	611	1895–1908	14	U	16026-16039	continuation of 264 class
0-6-0T	498	1912–21	23	2F	16151-16173	Short wheelbase
	29	1895–96	9	3F	16231-16239	With condensers for Glasgow Central low-level line
	782	1898–1913	138	3F	16240-16376
0-8-0T		1903–04	6	4F	16500-16505
0-6-0	711	1895–97	81	2F	17393-17473	Similar to "294" class
	812	1899–1900	79	3F	17550-17628
	652	1908–09	17	3F	17629-17645	Modified 812 class
		1912	4	3F	17646-17649	652 class with superheater
2-6-0		1912	5	3F	17800-17804	"Converted 30 class"
4-6-0	918	1906	5	3F	17900-17904
	179	1913–14	5	3F	17905-17909	Superheated
	184	1914–15	6	3F	17910-17915	Superheated
0-8-0		1901–03	8	4F	17990-17997

William Pickersgill 1914-1923[]

Wheel Arrangement	Class	Date	Builder	No. built	LMS power classification	LMS numbers	Notes
4-4-0	113	1916	St.Rollox (6) North British (10)	16	3P	14461–14476
4-4-0	72	1920–2	St.Rollox (10) Armstrong-Whitworth (10) North British (12)	32	3P	14477–14508
4-6-0	191	1922	North British	8	3P	14619–14626	"New Oban Bogies", non-superheated
	60	1916–7	St.Rollox	6	4P	14650–14655	"Greybacks", another 20 (14630–14649) built by LMS
	938	1915	Hawthorn Leslie	6	4P	14756–14761	"River" class, originally built for Highland Railway
	956	1921	St.Rollox	4	5P	14800–14803
0-4-4T	159	1915–22	St.Rollox	10	2P	15227–15236	non-superheated
0-4-4T	431	1922	St.Rollox	4	2P	15237–15240	non-superheated, another 10 (15260–15269) built by LMS
4-6-2T	944	1917	North British	12	4P	15350–15361
0-6-0	300	1918–20	St.Rollox	43	3F	17650–17692	non-superheated (some later converted)
2-8-0	ROD 2-8-0	1919–20	Various	50			GCR design, built for the government. Disposed of 1925-7, many went to China.

London, Midland and Scottish Railway[]

Caledonian Railway locomotives still existing in 1923 were taken into the stock of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). The LMS built some locomotives to Caledonian Railway designs after 1923.

Preservation[]

Only three Caledonian Railway locomotives survive.

Single 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[]

^ Ahrons, E.L. Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century Vol.3 p.18
^ "James Manson". Steamindex.com. Retrieved 21 February 2012.

[1] Ahrons, E.L. Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century Vol.3 p.18

[2] "James Manson". Steamindex.com. Retrieved 21 February 2012.

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