GNSR Classes V and F

The GNSR Classes V and F were a type of 4-4-0 steam locomotive built for the Great North of Scotland Railway by Neilson, Reid and Company, the railway's own Inverurie Works and the North British Locomotive Company. Class V was introduced in 1899 by William Pickersgill, and class F, introduced in 1920 by T. E. Heywood, was similar but superheated. Neilson, Reid built ten to the class V design in 1899, but the railway could not afford more than the first five, and the other five were sold to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, which made them its class G. The railway built eight more at Inverurie in 1909 to 1915. The class F locomotives were the only ones the railway named; of the eight, six were built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow in 1920 and two at Inverurie in 1921. All 21 passed to the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 as class D40 and eighteen passed to British Railways, the last being withdrawn in 1958, and No. 49 Gordon Highlander was preserved.