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Gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ... The Highland Railway Drummond 0-6-4T or X class were large tank engines originally intended for banking duty.
Three further locomotives were delivered by Dübs in 1893, possibly comprising the balance of the Uruguay order. These had standard Highland Railway fittings but were otherwise identical to the first two. They were originally numbered 11, 14 and 15, but were renumbered 51, 50 and 52 in 1899–1900, and 50 was again renumbered to 54 in 1901.
The locomotives of the Highland Railway were used by the Highland Railway to operate its lines in the north of Scotland. The Highland Railway locomotive works was at Lochgorm, Inverness . The works had been built about 1855 by the Inverness and Nairn Railway . [ 1 ]
The Highland Railway O Class locomotives were built as 2-4-0T tank engines, but were soon rebuilt as 4-4-0Ts. They were designed by David Jones for Scottish Railway companies and three were built at the company's Lochgorm Works in 1878 and 1879.
The Highland also took over the Findhorn Railway's small 0-4-0 tank engine that had been built by Neilson and the 0-4-0 tank engine that had been bought for the Hopeman branch from Hawthorns. [ 133 ] Barclay resigned in 1865, the year in which Highland Railway was formed, and William Stroudley became the first locomotive supervisor of the new ...
The Highland Railway K class were the only class of 0-6-0 tender locomotives built for the Highland Railway. They were introduced in 1900, to the design of Peter Drummond . The class were known as 'Barneys'.
The Highland Railway Castle Class (or the A Class) was a class of 4-6-0 locomotives designed in 1900 by Peter Drummond, chief mechanical engineer of the Highland Railway at the time. 19 locomotives were built by Dübs and North British Locomotive Co. until 1917, and the last were withdrawn from service in 1947.
None were built to the 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge, but several were built to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) and 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauges. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first examples of the type were two 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ) 2-6-2+2-6-2 L class Garratts built for the Tasmanian Government Railways in 1912.