Highland Railway F Class
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The Highland Railway F Class 4-4-0s were introduced in 1874. The first 10 were built by Dübs & co. A further seven were built in Lochgorm works between 1876 and 1888.
They featured 6 feet 3 inch driving wheel and weighed 41 tons. The original batch had boilers pressed to 140 lb per square inch, the later batch had slightly smaller boilers but a higher pressure (150 lb/sq inch).
Of typical Allan/Jones appearance they had outside cylinders.
The first 10 were numbered 60 to 69 and originally named as follows:
60 Bruce
61 Sutherlandshire
62 Perthshire
63 Inverness-shire
64 Morayshire
65 Nairnshire
66 Ross-shire
67 The Duke
68 Caithness-shire
69 The Lord Provost
All later had one other name, No 62 changed name three times.
The second batch were originally as follows:
4 Ardross
71 Clachnacuddin
72 Bruce
73 Thurlow
74 Beaufort
75 Breadalbane
84 Dochfour
No 71 was broken up in 1915, the rest survived into 1919 but had gone by 1947.
