Locomotives of the Highland Railway, G&SWR, & Caledonian Railway later LMS

I have added over 35 new photos of Peter Drummonds H.R. Castle class
The Highland Railway’s Castle Class was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive that were built for the Highland Railway by Dübs and Company & North British Locomotive Company. They became class A under Peter Drummond's 1901 classification scheme.
148 Cawdor Castle
https://railway-photography.smugmug...mond/Peter-Drummond-HR-Castle-Class/i-zfvkvMw

Photos in the Highland Railway Era start here with
50 Brodie Castle Drumochter Pass 4th September 1924
https://railway-photography.smugmug...mond/Peter-Drummond-HR-Castle-Class/i-4g8LK8d
to
149 Duncraig Castle near Perth
https://railway-photography.smugmug...mond/Peter-Drummond-HR-Castle-Class/i-KSKVh5B

LMS era start here with
14676 Ballindallach Castle at Wick July 1935
https://railway-photography.smugmug...mond/Peter-Drummond-HR-Castle-Class/i-RJsgwch
to
14696 Brodie Castle Perth North shed 30th May 1935
https://railway-photography.smugmug...mond/Peter-Drummond-HR-Castle-Class/i-4kbnzcj

Neil
https://railway-photography.smugmug...mond/Peter-Drummond-HR-Castle-Class/i-zfvkvMw

 

A punt on the locations for these too

Perth North Shed 63 /70 as the Dewars distillery is clear in the background - 17 / 70 too for the same reason ( labelled as Inverness )
Based on the horizontal boarding on the shed from the following are probably Perth North too 21 /70, 31 / 70, 53 /70 and 57 / 70.

54/70 is Inverness on the new main line to Aviemore crossing the old main line (visible bottom left) to Forres.

63 / 70 looks like Welsh's Bridge box , Inverness

20/70 is Blair Atholl , amazingly the buildings beyond the crossing look almost unchanged on Google maps.

 

I have added a lot of new photos to the collection featuring P. Drummond's Highland Railway W Class 0-4-4T

The Highland Railway W Class were four small 0-4-4T locomotives built by the Highland Railway in 1905–1906 to the design of locomotive superintendent Peter Drummond. They were the last engines that were built at the company's Lochgorm works in Inverness, and were used on branch line services.
All four locomotives passed to the LMS in 1923, where they were numbered 15051–15054 and given power classification '0P'. Locomotive 15052 was withdrawn in 1930, and 15054 followed in 1945, but the other two survived to become British Railways 55051 and 55053. These spent their final years based at Helmsdale for working the Dornoch Light Railway, which required locomotives with exceptionally light axle loadings. By the time they were finally withdrawn (in 1956 and 1957 respectively) they were the last former Highland Railway locomotives still in use, and were still in almost original condition.

55053 Lochgorm works 24th June 1957 6 months after been withdrawn (55053 was the last ex-Highland Railway locomotive in service withdrawn in January 1957)
https://railway-photography.smugmug...ummond/Highland-Railway-0P-044-Tank/i-sPpgkvD

Neil