Canonical locomotive pilot record
Caledonian Railway 439 Class No. 419
No. 419 gives the Caledonian Railway a first-class national subject record through a documented individual engine, rather than using a Waverley or Port Road occurrence as a proxy for the whole company.
Established identity and company history
Stable identity
What this record identifies
Classification, design and individual identities are kept separate so later numbers or related engines do not create duplicates.
- Classification
- Caledonian Railway 439 Class · 0-4-4T
- Individual
- Caledonian Railway No. 419
- Built
- St Rollox Works, Glasgow · 1907
- Later numbers
- LMS 15189 · BR 55189
Canonical record identifiers
srr:locomotive-classification:caledonian-439-classsrr:locomotive:caledonian-419srr:organisation:caledonian-railway
Company and preserved identity · Established
A Caledonian locomotive with a documented working life
SRPS identifies No. 419 as a J. F. McIntosh design built at St Rollox for branch, suburban and banking duties. Its documented career includes Polmadie, Lockerbie, Ardrossan, Dalry Road and Carstairs. This record represents that evidenced company history; it does not invent a particular train or extend the locomotive to every Caledonian route.
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Evidence before certainty
Direct links support the published relationship. Remaining gaps stay alongside the record rather than being filled with typical or assumed details.
Still unresolved
- No. 419's earliest service is not chronicled by the cited SRPS account.
- The record does not claim a complete allocation chronology.
- The 1982 photograph is preservation evidence, not a Caledonian-era working.
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