David Kirkcaldie

David Kirkcaldie (December 1848[1] – 5 September 1909) was a Scots-born railway executive in New South Wales.

He had the opportunity for promotion to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Bombay (present-day Mumbai), but was afraid the weather would not be healthy for him, so instead emigrated Australia, joining the New South Wales Railway service in 1876 as a clerk in the office of the Chief Traffic Manager for the Western and Southern lines.

[2] Three years later he was promoted to chief clerk in that section, then assistant traffic manager for the Southern and Western lines under William Vero Read (died 1922).

[2] In 1901 both Fehon and Kirkcaldie were offered the position of Chief Commissioner of Victorian Railways, and extracted from Parliament a £500 pay rise from £1500 to £2000 p.a.

He died following an operation for appendicitis, and his remains were buried at St Thomas' Anglican Church, Enfield, New South Wales.