Dugald Drummond
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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 brother of the engineer Peter Drummond.
He was a major locomotive designer and builder and many of his London and South Western Railway engines continued in main line service with the Southern Railway to enter British Railways service in 1947.
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[edit] LSWR Locomotives
Drummond designed locomotives in the following classes:
- LSWR 700 Class 0-6-0 known latterly as "the Black Motors"
- LSWR K14 Class 0-4-0 tank engines first designed by Adams as class B4
- LSWR C14 Class 2-2-0 motor tank - later rebuilt as 0-4-0
- LSWR C8 Class 4-4-0
- LSWR D15 Class 4-4-0
- LSWR E10 Class 4-2-2-0 "double single"
- LSWR E14 Class 4-6-0 known as "the Turkey"
- LSWR F13 Class 4-6-0
- LSWR G14 Class 4-6-0
- LSWR H12 Class railcar
- LSWR H13 Class railcar
- LSWR K10 Class 4-4-0 known as "Small Hoppers"
- LSWR K11 Class railcar
- LSWR L11 Class 4-4-0 known as "Large Hoppers"
- LSWR L12 Class 4-4-0 known as "Bulldogs"
- LSWR M7 Class 0-4-4 tank engines known as "Motor Tanks"
- LSWR P14 Class 4-6-0
- LSWR S11 Class 4-4-0
- LSWR T9 Class 4-4-0 known as "Greyhounds"
- LSWR T7 Class 4-2-2-0 prototype "double single"
- LSWRClass T14 4-6-0 known as "Paddleboxes"
- LSWR Mr Drummond's Car 4-2-4T known as "the Bug"
[edit] Career
Drummond was born in Ardrossan, Ayrshire on 1840-01-01. His father was permananent 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 W. Johnson.
He became foreman erector at the Lochgorm Works, Inverness, of the Highland Railway under William Stroudley and followed Stroudley to the London Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works in 1870. In 1875 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the North British Railway.
[edit] Tay bridge disaster
He was involved as an expert witness in the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879, being called to give evidence about the state of the track after the disaster. He said that the entire train had fallen vertically down when the High girders collapsed, from the marks the wheels had made on the lines. The evidence disproved Thomas Bouch's theory that the train had been blown off the rails by the storm that night. In 1882 he moved to the Caledonian Railway.
In April 1890 he tendered his resignation to enter business, establishing the Australasian Locomotive Engine Works at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The scheme failed rapidly and he returned to Scotland, founding the Glasgow Railway Engineering Company. Although the business was moderately successful, Drummond accepted the post as locomotive engineer of the London and South Western Railway in 1895, at a salary considerably less than that he had received on the Caledonian Railway. He remained with the LSWR until his death.
Drummond died on 8th November 1912 aged 73 in 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 Necropolis Railway.
[edit] External links
[edit] Bibliography
- Bradley, D. L. (1986). An illustrated history of LSWR Locomotives: the Drummond Classes. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications. ISBN 0-906867-42-8.
- Haresnape, Brian and 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.
| Preceded by: Thomas Wheatley 1867-1874 |
Chief Mechanical Engineer of the North British Railway 1875-1882 |
Followed by: Matthew Holmes 1882-1903 |
