Peter Drummond

Peter Drummond (1850–1918) was a Scottish locomotive engineer, the younger brother of Dugald Drummond, with whom he worked on the North British, Caledonian and London & South Western railways before taking independent posts. He served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Highland Railway from 1896 to 1911 and of the Glasgow & South Western Railway from 1912 until his death in office.

Born at Ardrossan, Ayrshire on 1 January 1850, the eighth son of carpenter Peter Drummond senior, he was apprenticed at Cowlairs Works under his elder brother on the North British Railway. He followed Dugald to St Rollox and to Nine Elms before taking the Highland post on David Jones's retirement.

His Highland designs included the 'Castle' 4-6-0 of 1900, an enlarged Jones Goods with passenger wheel sizes, and the '0-6-4 Banker' for the difficult Drumochter and Slochd summits. He left for the GSWR in 1912 on the understanding that he would have a freer hand at Kilmarnock, where he produced the '128' goods 0-6-0 (1913) and a sequence of mixed-traffic 4-4-0s. He died at Kilmarnock on 30 June 1918.