Caledonian Railway 498 Class

No. 16172 at Motherwell Locomotive Depot 15 August 1948

Performance figures
Tractive effort	18,015 lbf (80.1 kN)

The Caledonian Railway 498 Class was a class of 0-6-0 tank locomotives built for dock shunting. They were designed by John F. McIntosh for the Caledonian Railway (CR) and introduced in 1911. Twenty-three were built. They passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923 and to British Railways (BR) in 1948. Their numbers are shown in the table below.

Numbering table

CR nos.	Quantity	LMS nos.	BR nos.
498-499	2	16151-16152	56151-56152
527-538	12	16153-16164	56153-56164
502-504	3	16165-16167	56165-56167
510-515	6	16168-16173	56168-56173

The engines were withdrawn between 1958 and 1962. ^[1]

↑ Casserley, H.C. and Johnston, S.W., Locomotives at the Grouping, No.3, London Midland and Scottish, Ian Allan, 1966, p. 166

Caledonian Railway locomotives

Robert Sinclair (1847–1856)	59 (2-2-2) 96 101 111

Benjamin Connor (1856–1876)	59 (2-4-0) 552 600

George Brittain (1876–1882)	1 130 140 152 179 485 486 670

Dugald Drummond (1882–1890)	66 80 123 124 171 262 264 272 294 323

Hugh Smellie (1890)	Appointed 1 September 1890. Died 19 April 1891

John Lambie (1891–1895)	1 13 19 211 538A

John F. McIntosh (1895–1914)	29 43 49 55 92 139 140 179 184 439 498 611 652 711 721 766 782 812 879 900 903

William Pickersgill (1914–1923)	60 72 113 159 191 300 431 956

Miscellaneous	Highland Railway River Class

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