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.
Robert Sinclair">Robert Sinclair (locomotive engineer)">Robert Sinclair 1847-1856
[Benjamin Conner] 1856-1876
[George Brittain] 1876-1882
[Dugald Drummond] 1882-1890
[Hugh Smellie] 1890
Appointed 1 September 1890. Died 19 April 1891.John Lambie">John Lambie (engineer)">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 | 721 | 1896 | 15 | 2P | 14311-14325 | Dunalastair I |
| 4-4-0 | 766 | 1897–98 | 15 | 2P/3P | 14326-14336 & 14430-14433 | Dunalastair II - 4 rebuilt 1914 with superheaters |
| 4-4-0 | 900 | 1899–1900 | 16 | 2P/3P | 14337-14348 & 14434-14437 | Dunalastair III - 6 rebuilt 1914-30 with superheaters |
| 4-4-0 | 140 | 1904–10 | 19 | 2P/3P | 14349-14365 & 14438-14439 | Dunalastair IV - 4 rebuilt 1915-22 with superheaters |
| 4-4-0 | 139 | 1910–12 | 11 | 3P | 14440-14449 | Schmidt superheater |
| 4-4-0 | 43 | 1913–14 | 11 | 3P | 14450-14460 | Robinson superheater |
| 4-6-0 | 55 | 1902–05 | 9 | 3P | 14600-14608 | |
| 4-6-0 | 908 | 1906–07 | 10 | 3P | 14609-14618 | |
| 4-6-0 | 49 | 1903 | 2 | 4P | 14750-14751 | rebuilt 1911 with Schmidt superheaters |
| 4-6-0 | 903 | 1906 | 5 | 4P | 14752-14755 | "Cardeans", rebuilt 1911 with Schmidt superheaters |
| 0-4-4T | 92 | 1897 | 12 | 2P | 15125-15136 | |
| 0-4-4T | 879 | 1900 | 10 | 2P | 15137-15146 | |
| 0-4-4T | 104 | 1899 | 12 | 1P | 15147-15158 | |
| 0-4-4T | 439 | 1900–14 | 68 | 2P | 15159-15226 | |
| 0-4-0ST | 781 | 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 |
| 0-6-0T | 29 | 1895–96 | 9 | 3F | 16231-16239 | With condensers for Glasgow Central low-level line |
| 0-6-0T | 782 | 1898–1913 | 138 | 3F | 16240-16376 | |
| 0-8-0T | 492 | 1903–04 | 6 | 4F | 16500-16505 | |
| 0-6-0 | 711 | 1895–97 | 81 | 2F | 17393-17473 | Similar to "294" class |
| 0-6-0 | 812 | 1899–1900 | 79 | 3F | 17550-17628 | |
| 0-6-0 | 652 | 1908–09 | 17 | 3F | 17629-17645 | Modified 812 class |
| 0-6-0 | 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 | |
| 4-6-0 | 179 | 1913–14 | 5 | 3F | 17905-17909 | Superheated |
| 4-6-0 | 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 North British | 16 | 3P | 14461–14476 | |
| 4-4-0 | 72 | 1920–2 | St.Rollox Armstrong-Whitworth North British | 32 | 3P | 14477–14508 | |
| 4-6-0 | 191 | 1922 | North British | 8 | 3P | 14619–14626 | "New Oban Bogies", non-superheated |
| 4-6-0 | 60 | 1916–7 | St.Rollox | 6 | 4P | 14650–14655 | "Greybacks", another 20 built by LMS |
| 4-6-0 | 938 | 1915 | Hawthorn Leslie | 6 | 4P | 14756–14761 | "River" class, originally built for Highland Railway |
| 4-6-0 | 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 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 |
| 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. 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