Highland Railway F Class
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The Highland Railway F class 4-4-0s were a class of British
Great Britain
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 steam locomotives introduced in 1874. The first 10 were built by Dübs and Company
Dûbs and Company
Dübs & Co. was a locomotive works in Glasgow, Scotland, founded by Henry Dübs in 1863 and based at the Queens Park Works in Polmadie. In 1903 it became part of the North British Locomotive Company.-Preserved locomotives:...

 in 1874. A further seven were built in Lochgorm works between 1876 and 1888.

They featured 6-feet 3-inch driving wheels and weighed 41 tons. The original batch had boilers pressed to 140 lbf/in2, the later batch had slightly smaller boilers but a higher pressure of 150 lbf/in2. Of typical Allan/Jones appearance, they had outside cylinders of 18 by.

The first 10 were numbered 60 to 69 and originally named as follows:
HR No.NameNotes
60
Bruce
61
Sutherland
Sutherland
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shire
62
Perthshire
Perthshire
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63
Inverness-shire
Inverness-shire
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64
Morayshire
65
Nairnshire
66
Ross-shire
Ross-shire
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67
The Duke
68
Caithness-shire
69
The Lord Provost
Lord Provost
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All were later renamed at least once. No. 62 was renamed name three times.

The second batch were originally as follows:
HR No.NameNotes
4
Ardross
Ardross, Highland
Ardross Rural area in the Highland region of Scotland, north of the nearest city, Inverness...

Renumbered 31 in 1899
71
Clachnacuddin
72
Bruce
73
Thurlow
Thurlow
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74
Beaufort
Beaufort
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75
Breadalbane
Breadalbane, Scotland
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84
Dochfour

Some of these were also later renamed.

Withdrawal commenced in 1907, and No. 71 was broken up in 1915. The remainder survived into 1919, but only five (numbers 67, 72, 74, 75 and 84) made it into LMS ownership. All had been scrapped by 1947.
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