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The locomotives of the Great North of Scotland Railway were used by the Great North of Scotland Railway to operate its lines in the far north-east of the country. The railway opened in 1854 with just five 2-4-0 steam locomotives, and from 1862 it used 4-4-0 exclusively as the wheel arrangement for its tender locomotives. When it expanded by amalgamation in 1866, it inherited some locomotives from these companies. It purchased most of its locomotives, although building a small number itself, two at its first works at Kittybrewster, and ten later at Inverurie Locomotive Works. When the Great North of Scotland became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923, it passed on 122 steam locomotives, 100 4-4-0 tender locomotives and 22 tank engines, all of which were capable of being used on both passenger and goods trains. One locomotive, No. 49, ''Gordon Highlander'', has been preserved as a static exhibit. ==Early locomotives== The first Great North of Scotland Railway locomotives were 2-4-0 tender engines,built by Wm Fairbairn in Manchester to the design of the locomotive superintendent Daniel Kinnear Clark. Twelve were ordered for the opening of the first line, seven passenger, numbered 1 to 7, and five goods, numbered 8 to 12 and as early GNoSR locomotives were known by the lowest numbered engine in the class, these became Class 1 and Class 8. The goods locomotives had been ordered as 0-6-0 and the specification changed during manufacture, and they were all fitted with Clark's patent smoke preventing system that improved fuel economy. Painted green with black borders, and red buffer beams, there was no protection for the driver or fireman and braking was by wooden blocks on the four wheels of the tender. The railway opened with only five locomotives, and within days one had been seriously damaged in a collision at and a second had a mechanical fault. Two more locomotives had arrived by the end of 1854, and the order was complete by summer 1855. Four more passenger locomotives were ordered in 1857, and weatherboards and sanding equipment were fitted by 1860. Cabs were added in the 1880s, and the locomotives withdrawn during the 1880s and 1890s, the last in 1898. John Folds Ruthven replaced Clark in 1855 and an order was placed with Beyer, Peacock & Co. for two 0-4-0 tank engines to bank trains on the line to Waterloo near Aberdeen harbour. Numbered 13 and 14, these locomotive were given new boilers in 1887 and sold to the War Department in 1916. No. 14 was in use until 1934 and scrapped in 1943. After William Cowan became locomotive superintendent nine more goods locomotives similar to Class 8 arrived in 1859–61. Built by Robert Stephenson & Co., these Class 19s survived to be later reclassified as Class B and the last was withdrawn in 1909. These were followed by nine 4-4-0s, also built by Stephensons, numbered 28–36 and delivered 1862–64. Later re-classified as Class H, these started work in Strathspey, and the class was re-boilered after No. 31 burst her boiler in 1878 at . The last of the class survived until 1920. Six more powerful 4-4-0 locomotives arrived from Neilsons in 1866, fitted with a more modern bogie. Later classified as Class K and numbered from 43 as the Banffshire and Morayshire locomotives had been taken onto stock, these were rebuilt between 1889 and 1891. Three passed to the London and North Eastern Railway after the 1923 Grouping, and No. 45 hauled a train at the Railway Centenary celebrations in 1925 before being scrapped. The financial situation in 1866 precluded buying any more locomotives until 1876. Partly to replace the Deeside locomotives, six 4-4-0 locomotives were built by Neilson's in 1876. These were similar to Class 43 but with larger boilers and fireboxes, and were the first to be built with cabs. Given the numbers 49, 50 and 54–57, (57 was soon renumbered 52), the locomotives later became Class L. These passed to the LNER and the last was withdrawn in 1924. The next twelve locomotives had rounded splashers over the trailing driving wheels, which meant shape of the cab was different, but retained the brass dome on the firebox, copper capped chimney and had brass bands joining the firebox and boiler. These became Class M, delivered in 1878, and the subsequent Class C that were numbered 1, 2 and 3, as they replaced the older locomotives. As the locomotive stock numbers were being reused, the lettering system of classes was introduced. These locomotives passed to the LNER and the last was withdrawn in 1940. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Locomotives of the Great North of Scotland Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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