Highland Railway Loch Class

The Highland Railway Loch class were large 4-4-0 passenger locomotives normally used north of Inverness, introduced in 1896 to the design of David Jones. Dübs and Company of Glasgow built fifteen, all in traffic between July and September 1896, and three more came in 1917 from its successor, the North British Locomotive Company, with few design changes after an interval of over twenty years, apart from steel boiler tubes, a Westinghouse brake pump and a larger tender. The later engines were needed for the Kyle line, where they were the heaviest locomotives permitted. They passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, and only two survived into British Railways ownership in 1948.