Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Class "123" 4-2-2 No.123, built in 1886 by Neilson (Works No.3553) specifically for the Edinburgh International Exhibition.

An example of the 8ft 2" wheeled Caledonian 2-2-2. They were built from 1859 onwards and served as the main express engine until 1885. The final engine was withdrawn from service in 1901.

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	Class	Date	Builder	No. built	Notes
2-2-2	4	1847-9	CR Greenock (30) Vulcan Foundry (12) Jones & Potts (10) Scott Sinclair (3)	55	13 rebuilt as 2-4-0 , 3 as 2-2-2 WT
	59	1848-52	Jones & Potts	6	all rebuilt 1857-65 as 2-4-0
	65	1854-5	CR Greenock	12
2-4-0	144	1854	George England	8
	152	1854-5	CR Greenock	13
	165	1855	CR Greenock	6
0-4-2	111	1847-9	R&W Hawthorn	3
	113	1847	Neilson & Mitchell	6
	101	1848	CR Greenock	5
	106	1849	CR Greenock	5
	132	1853	Neilson	4
	171	1855	CR Greenock	3
	174	1856-8	St. Rollox	8
2-4-0 T	80	1854	Hawthorn of Leith	2
0-4-0 ST	136	1853	CR Greenock	8	6 later rebuilt as 0-4-2T
	83	1854-5	Hawthorn of Leith	1
0-4-2 ST	87	1854-5	Hawthorn of Leith	2
2-2-2 WT	77	1851	CR Greenock	3
0-4-0	116	1848	Fairbairn	2	1 rebuilt as 0-4-2 T , both sold 1863
0-6-0	96	1849-50	Jones & Potts (5) CR Greenock (10)	15	later rebuilt to 0-4-2

Benjamin Conner 1856-1876

Wheel Arrangement	Class	Dates	Builder	No. built	Notes
2-2-2	76	1859-64	St. Rollox	12	8 ft 2 in wheels
	113	1875	St. Rollox	4	8 ft 2 in wheels
	88	1864	St. Rollox	4	7 ft 2 in wheels
	460	1871	A. Barclay	1	7 ft 2 in wheels - Experimental design
0-4-2	216	1861-6	Neilson (34)	64
			Dübs (30)
	552	1870-1	Dübs (18)	31
			Neilson (13)
	324	1872-4	Neilson	40
2-4-0	189	1858-9	St. Rollox (4)	8
			Neilson (4)		with steam tenders
	197	1860-3	St. Rollox (10)	25
			Neilson (9)
			Beyer-Peacock (6)
	228	1861-6	Neilson (9)	18
			Dübs (9)
	92	1865-7	St. Rollox	11
	288	1865-6	Dübs	10
	417	1866-70	Neilson	37
	98	1867-73	St. Rollox (10)	28
			Neilson (18)
	472	1868	Caledonian Railway, Perth	2
	1	1869-74	Dübs (14)	35
			Neilson (21)
	372	1870	Neilson	16
	583	1872-3	Dübs	31
	42	1874	Dübs	7
	55	1875	Neilson	4
	615	1874-8	Dübs (19)	29
			Neilson (10)
4-4-0	125	1877	Neilson	5
0-4-0 PT	236	1862	Neilson	4
	270	1865	A. Barclay	2
0-4-0 ST	123	1867	Neilson	1
	15	1869-72	A. Barclay	6
	133	1872-4	A. Barclay	2
0-4-0 T	446	1873	Dübs	2
0-4-0 ST	502	1876-81	Neilson	14
0-4-4 WT	488	1873-4	Neilson	4
0-6-0 ST	139	1870	Neilson	2
	536	1871-5	Neilson (8)	14
			Dübs (6)
	141	1873	Neilson	1
0-6-0	188	1858	Neilson	1
	120	1872	St. Rollox	1
	631	1874-7	Dübs	39

George Brittain 1876-1882

Wheel Arrangement	Class	Date	Builder	No. built	LMS power classification	LMS numbers	Notes
2-4-0	130	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"
0-4-0 T	485	1878	Neilson	1			Crane tank
2-4-0 T	140	1879	Dübs	12
2-4-2 T	152	1880	Neilson	15
2-2-2 WT	1	1881	St. Rollox	1			For officer's saloon
0-6-0 ST	486	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	80	1888-91	St. Rollox	12	1P	14108-14115	"Coast bogies"
	66	1884-91	Neilson (10) St. Rollox (18)	28	1P	14290-14309
	124	1886	Dübs	1	1P	14296	Exhibition engine - related to "66" class
0-4-2 ST	262	1885	St. Rollox	2	U	15000-15001
0-4-4 T	171	1884-91	St. Rollox	24	1P	15100-15114
0-4-0 ST	264	1885-90	St. Rollox	20	U	16008-16025
0-6-0 ST	272	1888	St. Rollox	6	U	16100-16102
	323	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	13	1894	6	1P	14308-14310
4-4-0T	1	1893-4	12	1P	15020-15031
0-4-4T	19	1895	10	2P	15115-15124
0-4-0ST	538A	1892	2			Second-hand - built 1872-3 by Dübs and Company
0-6-0ST	211	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 (Dunalastairs)	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
0-4-4 T	92	1897	12	2P	15125-15136
	879	1900	10	2P	15137-15146
	104	1899	12	1P	15147-15158
	439	1900–14	68	2P	15159-15226
0-4-0 ST	781	1896	1	U	16000	acquired second hand 1897. Built by A. Barclay
	611	1895–1908	14	0F	16026-16039	continuation of 264 class
0-6-0 T	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
0-8-0 T	492	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
	30	1912	4	3F	17646-17649	652 class with superheater
2-6-0	34	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	600	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
	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
0-4-4 T	159	1915–22	St. Rollox	10	2P	15227–15236	non-superheated
	431	1922	St. Rollox	4	2P	15237–15240	non-superheated, another 10 (15260–15269) built by LMS
4-6-2 T	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

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

Preservation

Image	CR No.	CR Class	Type	Manufacturer	Serial No.	Date	Notes
	123	Single	4-2-2	Neilson and Company	3553	1886	On static display at the Riverside Museum
	828	812 Class	0-6-0	St Rollox Works		August 1899	Operational at the Strathspey Railway
	419	439 Class	0-4-4 T	St Rollox Works		November 1907	Operational at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway

See also

• List of LMS locomotives as of 31 December 1947

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

1. Ahrons, E.L. Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Vol. 3. p. 18.
2. "James Manson (& Hugh Smellie)". steamindex.com. Hugh Smellie. Retrieved 21 February 2012.