Dugald Drummond

Dugald Drummond
Dugald Drummond
Born 1 January 1840(1840-01-01)
Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died 8 November 1912(1912-11-08) (aged 72)
Surbiton, Surrey, England
Nationality Scottish
Work
Engineering discipline Mechanical and Locomotive
Employer(s) North British Railway
Caledonian Railway
London and South Western Railway

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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Career

Drummond was born in Ardrossan, Ayrshire on 1 January 1840. 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.

Tay bridge disaster

Original Tay Bridge from the north
Fallen Tay Bridge from the north

Drummond 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. Although Ladybank, a 0-4-2 locomotive of Drummond's design, had been booked to work the train it had broken down and was replaced by a 4-4-0 from Thomas Wheatley, thus freeing Drummond to act as an independent witness.[1] He said that the entire train had fallen vertically down when the High Girders collapsed, from the impact marks the wheels had made on the lines. All the axles of the train were bent in one direction. The evidence helped disprove Thomas Bouch's theory that the train had been blown off the rails by the storm that night.

Further career

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. The title of his post was changed to Chief Mechanical Engineer in January 1905[2], although his duties hardly changed[3]. He remained with the LSWR until his death.

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 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

30415 class L12 at Eastleigh in 1949.

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 class 4-4-0, 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 Class (1883) 0-6-0, later LMS class 2F
  • Caledonian Railway 66 Class 4-4-0, later LMS class 2P
  • Caledonian Railway 171 Class 0-4-4T, later LMS class 1P
  • Caledonian Railway 262 Class 0-4-2ST, later LMS class 0P
  • Caledonian Railway 264 Class 0-4-0ST, 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

References

  1. ^ Rolt, Lionel (1955). "Bridge failures—Storm and Tempest". Red for Danger. London: John Lane. 
  2. ^ Bradley, D. L. (1967). Locomotives of the L.S.W.R. part 2. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. p. 2. 
  3. ^ Chacksfield, J. E. (2005). The Drummond Brothers: A Scottish Duo. Usk: Oakwood Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-85361-632-9. 

External links

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 & 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. 
Business positions
Preceded by
Thomas Wheatley
Locomotive Superintendent of the North British Railway
1875–1882
Succeeded by
Matthew Holmes
Preceded by
George Brittain
Locomotive Superintendent of the Caledonain Railway
1882–1890
Succeeded by
Hugh Smellie
Preceded by
William Adams
Locomotive Superintendent of the London and South Western Railway
1895–1912
Succeeded by
Robert Urie

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