Dugald Drummond
Dugald Drummond | |
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 Dugald Drummond | |
| Born | 1 January 1840 Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Died | 8 November 1912 (aged 72) Surbiton, Surrey, England |
| Resting place | Brookwood Cemetery 51°17′57″N 0°37′25″W / 51.299236°N 0.623569°W |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Mechanical and Locomotive |
| Employer(s) | North British Railway Caledonian Railway London and South Western Railway |
| Awards | Telford medal (1896/7)[1] |
Dugald Drummond (1 January 1840 – 8 November 1912) was a Scottish
He was a major locomotive designer and builder
Career
Drummond was born in Ardrossan, Ayrshire on 1 January 1840. His father was permanent way inspector for the Bowling Railway. Drummond was apprenticed to Forest & Barr of Glasgow gaining further experience on the Dumbartonshire and Caledonian Railways. He was in charge of the boiler shop at the Canada Works, Birkenhead of Thomas Brassey before moving to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway's Cowlairs railway works in 1864 under Samuel Waite Johnson.
He became foreman erector at the
Tay bridge disaster
Drummond was involved as an
Further career
In 1882 he moved to the
Drummond died on 8 November 1912 aged 72 at his home at Surbiton. A myth has developed that he died as a result of scalding received on the footplate. However C. Hamilton Ellis states that he had got cold and wet and demanded a hot mustard bath for his numb feet. He was scalded by the boiling water. He neglected the burns, gangrene set in and amputation became necessary. He refused an anaesthetic and died of the shock. He is buried at Brookwood Cemetery, which is adjacent to the LSWR mainline, in a family grave just a stone's throw from the former terminus of the London Necropolis Railway.
Family
Drummond's daughter, Christine Sarah Louise was born in Brighton in 1871, soon after the family's arrival there from Scotland. She married James Johnson, son of Samuel Waite Johnson CME of the Midland Railway 1873–1904. Her third child, born in 1905 was named Dugald Samuel Waite Johnson after both of his grandfathers.
Locomotive designs
Drummond designed the following classes of locomotives:
North British Railway
- NBR 165 class 0-6-0T, later LNER class J82
- NBR 100 class 0-6-0, later LNER class J32
- NBR 474 class 2-2-2
- NBR 476 class4-4-0, later LNER classes D27 and D28
- NBR 157 class 0-4-2T, later 0-4-4T, later LNER class G8
- NBR 494 class 4-4-0T, later LNER class D50
- NBR 34 class 0-6-0, later LNER class J34
Caledonian Railway
- Caledonian Railway 294 Class0-6-0, later LMS class 2F
- Caledonian Railway 66 Class 4-4-0, later LMS class 2P
- Caledonian Railway 171 Class0-4-4T, later LMS class 1P
- Caledonian Railway 262 Class 0-4-2ST, later LMS class 0P
- Caledonian Railway 264 Class0-4-0ST, later LMS class 0F
- Caledonian Railway 123, 4-2-2, later LMS 14010, class 1P
- Caledonian Railway 385 Class 0-6-0ST, later LMS class 3F
- Caledonian Railway 80 Class 4-4-0, later LMS class 1P
- Caledonian Railway 272 Class 0-6-0ST, later LMS class 0F
London and South Western Railway
- LSWR 700 class 0-6-0 known latterly as "the Black Motors"
- LSWR M7 class 0-4-4 tank engines known as "Motor Tanks"[6]
- LSWR T7 class 4-2-2-0 prototype "double single"
- LSWR C8 class 4-4-0
- LSWR F9 class 4-2-4T known as "the Bug"
- LSWR T9 class 4-4-0 known as "Greyhounds"
- LSWR E10 class4-2-2-0 "double single"
- LSWR K10 class 4-4-0 known as "Small Hoppers"
- LSWR K11 classrailcar
- LSWR L11 class 4-4-0 known as "Large Hoppers"
- LSWR S11 class 4-4-0
- LSWR L12 class 4-4-0 known as "Bulldogs"
- LSWR H12 classrailcar
- LSWR F13 class 4-6-0
- LSWR H13 classrailcar
- LSWR C14 class 2-2-0 motor tank – later rebuilt as 0-4-0
- LSWR K14 class 0-4-0 tank engines first designed by Adams as class B4
- LSWR E14 class 4-6-0 known as "the Turkey"
- LSWR G14 class 4-6-0
- LSWR P14 class 4-6-0
- LSWR T14 class 4-6-0 known as "Paddleboxes"
- LSWR D15 class 4-4-0
Patents
- GB189727949, published 15 October 1898, Improvements in locomotive boilers[7]
- GB189901077, published 2 December 1899, Improvements in apparatus for use in heating railway carriages[8]
References
- ^ a b "Scientific Notes and News". Science. 6 (145): 557. 1897 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Kellett, John R. (1969). "Writing on Victorian Railways: An Essay in Nostalgia". Victorian Studies. 13 (1): 93 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Rolt, Lionel (1955). "Bridge failures—Storm and Tempest". Red for Danger. London: John Lane.
- ^ Bradley, D. L. (1967). Locomotives of the L.S.W.R. part 2. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. p. 2.
- ISBN 0-85361-632-9.
- ^ London & South Western Railway; Dugald Drummond. "Steam locomotive, number 245 [co205776]". Science Museum Group – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Espacenet – Bibliographic data". Worldwide.espacenet.com. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ^ "Espacenet – Bibliographic data". Worldwide.espacenet.com. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
Further reading
- Bradley, D. L. (1986). An illustrated history of LSWR Locomotives: the Drummond Classes. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications. ISBN 0-906867-42-8.
- Haresnape, Brian & Rowledge, Peter (1982). Drummond Locomotives: a pictorial history. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1206-7.
- Ellis, C. Hamilton (1956). The South Western Railway. London: Allen & Unwin.
External links
- Dugald Drummond at www.lner.info
- Dugald Drummond and his brother Peter at steamindex.com
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