The Highland Railway Jones Goods class was a class of steam locomotive, and was notable as the first class with a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement in the British...
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David Jones (1834–1906) was locomotive superintendent of the Highland Railway between 1870 and 1896. He was credited with the design of the first British...
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The Highland Railway Loch class locomotives were large 4-4-0s normally used north of Inverness. They were introduced in 1896, to the design of David Jones...
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The Highland Railway (HR) was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating north of Perth railway station in Scotland and...
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The Highland Railway 'Castle Class' (or the A Class) was a class of 4-6-0 locomotives designed in 1900 by Peter Drummond, chief mechanical engineer of...
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The Highland Railway began as the Inverness and Nairn Railway (later the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway), which operated the other lines which...
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locomotives of the Highland Railway were used by the Highland Railway to operate its lines in the north of Scotland. The Highland Railway locomotive works...
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railway cutting, the cooling towers of the now-demolished Goldington Power Station can be seen. The locomotive is former Highland Railway Jones Goods...
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1894 he introduced the Highland Railway Jones Goods Class, the first 4-6-0 to operate on any British Railway. In 1899 the three Avonside Engine Company...
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4-6-0 (section British Railways era)
locomotive to be introduced in the United Kingdom was the Highland Railway's Jones Goods class of 1894, the first of which (No. 103) survives. Within five...
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Strathpeffer railway station was a railway station serving the town of Strathpeffer in the county of Ross and Cromarty, (later Highland Region), Scotland...
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The Class 66 is a type of six-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive developed in part from the Class 59, for use on UK railways. Since its introduction...
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engines for overseas railways, but in 1894 came their first Glasgow order for a British line, the "Jones Goods" of the Highland Railway. By the end of the...
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locomotive Prince from the Ffestiniog Railway and Hunslet Engine Company Russell from the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, both in Porthmadog. Two lengths...
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of the Welsh Highland Railway has a colourful and complex history. This article provides the modern history. The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) was a poorly-funded...
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Riverside Museum (category Railway museums in Scotland)
city's railway heritage, including locomotives such as: The Caledonian Railway - Caley No. 123 single driver Highland Railway - No. 103, the Jones Goods North...
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Caledonian Railway. The Caledonian Railway Locomotive Works were originally at Greenock but moved to St. Rollox, Glasgow, in 1856. The locomotive classes are...
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Peter Drummond (engineer) (category Highland Railway)
include: Highland Railway Drummond 4-6-0 'Castle' Class engine Highland Railway Drummond 0-6-0 Class goods engine Highland Railway Drummond 0-6-4T Class banking...
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Ravenglass railway museum. A Bassett-Lowke Class 60 4-6-2, built in 1913 for Captain JE Howey, later of Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway fame, and named...
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Great Central has a varied fleet of steam classes representing each of the United Kingdom's "Big Four" railway companies and British Rail. Some of them...
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irrespective of distance—and the goods were delivered throughout the UK via the newly created railway system. As the railway network expanded overseas, so...
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the Great Irish Famine as well as Gaelic-speaking Scots displaced by the Highland Clearances. Infectious diseases killed between 25 and 33 percent of Europeans...
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History of St Neots (section Railways)
the biggest influence of the railway in the nineteenth century was the transport of goods and minerals: manufactured goods outward, and heavy commodities...
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The Dundee and Newtyle Railway opened in 1831 and was the first railway in the north of Scotland. It was built to carry goods between Dundee and the fertile...
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History of Denver (redirect from City of Denver, Auraria, and Highland)
had already been constructed. A short time later a third town, called Highland was founded on the west side of the South Platte River. Surrounded by steep...
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scholars agree that the narrative has a historical core, and that some of the highland settlers came, one way or another, from Egypt." Redmount 2001, p. 61: "A...
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Army Medical Corps Warrant Officer Class 1 Grant Spencer Sewell-Jones, Royal Corps of Army Music Warrant Officer Class 1 Paul Sheenan, Corps of Royal Electrical...
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Beamish Museum (category Railway museums in England)
from Alnwick. The goods area represents how general cargo would have been moved on the railway, and for onward transport. The goods shed features a covered...
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conventional goods traffic and a wharf for interchange traffic with the Ffestiniog Railway, notably for slate working, but for other goods besides, particularly...
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Scottish Australians (section Highland gatherings)
1914, 13.5 percent were Scots. Much settlement followed the Highland Potato Famine, Highland Clearances and the Lowland Clearances of the mid-19th century...
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