- TITLE
- HR 60 'Ben Bhreac Mhor' at Inverness, July 1915
- EXTERNAL ID
- PC_HRS_LOCOMOTIVES_008_397
- PLACENAME
- Inverness
- OLD COUNTY/PARISH
- INVERNESS: Inverness and Bona
- DATE OF IMAGE
- 1 July 1915
- PERIOD
- 1910s
- SOURCE
- Highland Railway Society
- ASSET ID
- 25858
- KEYWORDS
- railway locomotives
Highland Railway locomotives
In May 1908 the Highland Railway took delivery of four 4-4-0 locomotives from the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow. They were very similar in design to the 'Ben' class of a decade earlier but had larger boilers. This gave rise to their being referred to as the 'Big Bens' and their predecessors as 'Small Bens'. The first batch (numbered 61, 63, 66 and 68) had 6-wheeled tenders. A year later, two more engines (numbered 60 and 62) were ordered from the same builders. These had 8-wheeled tenders. All six survived into LMS ownership but all had been withdrawn long before nationalisation.
This photograph shows HR 60 'Ben Bhreac Mhor'at Inverness in July 1915. It was numbered 14421 by the LMS and in 1924 was renamed 'Ben Bhreac' Mhor'. It continued in service until being withdrawn in October 1932.