Caledonian Railway Locomotives: The Formative Years

The Caledonian Railway was a major company. Its lines spread from Carlisle to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and it partnered the London & North Western Railway in operating the West Coast route, the first to run through trains from London to Scotland. Within Scotland, it served much of the industrial central belt, carrying significant volumes of coal and iron from a multitude of small mines and works. This required a large stock of goods and mineral locomotives, whilst passenger trains varied from expresses linking the major cities to humble tanks operating rural branch lines on relaxed schedules. In this book, the author describes all the locomotives built for the Caledonian and its constituents up to 1882. That is a convenient point to conclude this volume as it marks the retirement of George Brittain.