GNSR LOCO NO 49
GORDON HIGHLANDER
Alasdair Milne
Great North of Scotland Railway Class F locomotive, Gordon Highlander, was built at Inverurie by T E Heywood as a superheated development of the Class V locomotive.
The class F locomotives were the only ones to be named and originally compromised eight locomotives, six built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow in 1920, the remaining two by GNSR at Inverurie Works in 1921. All GNSR locomotives passed to the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. Eighteen of these then passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 (eleven former Class V, and seven former Class F). BR renumbered them by adding 60000 to their 1946 LNER number.
The last locomotive was withdrawn in 1958. Gordon Highlander No. 62277 was preserved and renumbered as GNSR No. 49, as an example of the superheated version. At withdrawal, it was the only survivor of the class still in service. It was restored in GNSR green in 1958, although it never carried green livery in GNSR service; it originally appeared in Heywood’s lined black. It was given the occasional special outing before retirement to the Glasgow Transport Museum.
Alasdair’s super 7.25” gauge model was photographed at a Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition.
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