Highland Railway Jones Goods Class

The Highland Railway Jones Goods class was a group of fifteen 4-6-0 steam locomotives built by Sharp, Stewart and Company and delivered between September and November 1894 as numbers 103 to 117. They were the first locomotives of the 4-6-0 wheel arrangement in the British Isles, a type with its origins in the United States that was introduced to Britain by the Highland Railway's locomotive superintendent David Jones. Originally known as the Big Goods class, they later became class I under Peter Drummond's 1901 classification. At the time they were the most powerful main line engines in the country, with a boiler pressure of 175 pounds per square inch and outside cylinders of 20 by 26 inches. Meant mainly for freight, they were often used on passenger trains during the summer peaks. They passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway as 17916 to 17930 and were withdrawn between 1929 and 1940, but number 103 was preserved and is now in the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.