John Lambie (engineer)

John Lambie (engineer)
Born	(1833-10-29)29 October 1833 Saltcoats, Ayrshire
Died	1 February 1895(1895-02-01) (aged 61) Glasgow
Nationality	Scottish
Engineering career
Discipline	Mechanical engineering

John Lambie was a Scottish engineer. He was born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, on 29 October 1833 and died in Glasgow on 1 February 1895.^[1] He was Locomotive Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway from 1891 to 1895.^[2]

Career

John Lambie became Locomotive Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway on 1 April 1891. He came from a railway background as his father had been Traffic Manager of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway until it was absorbed by the Caledonian Railway in 1848.

Innovations

John Lambie improved conditions for enginemen by fitting cab doors, better handrails and footsteps to locomotives. He improved on Dugald Drummond's 4-4-0 design in 1894 and he introduced condensing steam locomotives of the 4-4-0T and 0-4-4T types for underground lines.

See also

• Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway
• Locomotives of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

References

1. "John Lambie (1833-1895) - Find A Grave Memorial". findagrave.com. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
2. "Brief Biographies of Major Mechanical Engineers". steamindex.com. Lambie, John. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

Business positions
Preceded by Hugh Smellie	Locomotive Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway 1891-1895	Succeeded by John F. McIntosh