15 Facts About Dugald Drummond

Dugald Drummond was a Scottish steam locomotive engineer.

Dugald Drummond was the older brother of the engineer Peter Drummond, who often followed Dugald's ideas in his own work.

Dugald Drummond 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.

Dugald Drummond's father was permanent way inspector for the Bowling Railway.

Dugald Drummond 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.

Dugald Drummond 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.

Dugald 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.

Dugald Drummond 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.

Dugald Drummond encumbered many of his LSWR engines with innovations which he had patented himself, such as firebox cross water tubes, and his smokebox steam drier, which only gave a very small degree of superheat.

Dugald Drummond died on 8 November 1912 aged 72 at his home at Surbiton.

Dugald Drummond neglected the burns, gangrene set in and amputation became necessary.

Dugald Drummond refused an anaesthetic and died of the shock.

Dugald Drummond 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.

Dugald Drummond's daughter, Christine Sarah Louise was born in Brighton in 1871, soon after the family's arrival there from Scotland.

Dugald Drummond's third child, born in 1905 was named Dugald Samuel Waite Johnson after both of his grandfathers.