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Caledonian Railway The Caledonian Railway (CR) was one of the two biggest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping. It was formed in 1845 with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively ex ...

908 Class were

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Overview

McIntosh developed six different classes of 4-6-0 for the Caledonian Railway:Essery, Bob & Jenkinson, David (1986), ''An Illustrated History of L.M.S. Locomotives, Volume Three: Absorbed Pre-Group Classes, Northern Division'', OPC, p.33 * large 49 and 903 Classes for express passenger traffic, with driving wheels * intermediate 908 and

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Classes for mixed traffic, with driving wheels * small () wheeled 55 and

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Classes for the Oban line and express goods traffic respectively Only one batch of ten 908 Class locomotives was built, but the subsequent 179 Class was essentially a

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version of the 908. All were originally delivered in the Caledonian's blue passenger locomotive livery. Two locomotives were named "Sir James King" and "Barochan" (after the chairman of the Caledonian Railway and the home of its deputy chairman), though these names were later removed. Although most of the locomotives had cabs of the standard Caledonian Railway style with curved cut-outs on the sides, the last of the batch (number 917) had a more modern style of cab with two arched windows on either cabside. Sources differ as to whether it was built in this form or whether the cab was modified early in the locomotive's life. Apart from No. 917 the only other Caledonian engines to carry side-window cabs were the 179 Class.

LMS ownership

The locomotives passed into the ownership of the

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upon its formation in 1923. They were classified as passenger locomotives by the LMS and were therefore repainted into crimson lake livery, although this later gave way to lined black. Oddly, the very similar 179 Class were treated as goods engines by the LMS. They were displaced by new LMS standard locomotives such as the "Crab" 2-6-0s and were withdrawn for scrap between 1930 and 1935.

Numbering and locomotive histories

source: BritishSteam

References

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Overview

LMS ownership

Numbering and locomotive histories

See also

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