Highland Railway

HISTORY

The ''; the first train ran 5 November 1855 ; it was the original part of the HR;

A railway between Nairn and Keith opened in 1858 ; in 1861 this was amalgamated with the INR to become the '' Inverness And Aberdeen Junction Railway (I&AJR)'';

Two railways were to follow:

--- the Inverness And Perth Junction Railway , opened in 1863 , which connected with the I&AJR at Forres , and which in turn joined the Perth And Dunkeld Railway (opened 7 April 1856 ) at Dunkeld , completing the main line of the HR, which itself came into being in 1865 ;

Lines to north were also being opened; all were merged with the HR by 1884 :

--- 23 March 1856 the Inverness And Ross-shire Railway , Inverness to Invergordon ; it was extended to Bonar Bridge in 1864 ;

--- , Bonar Bridge to Golspie ;

--- , Dingwall to Stromeferry and Kyle Of Lochalsh opened throughout; the

--- , Golspie to Helsmdale built by the Duke Of Sutherland ;

--- , Helmsdale to Wick and Thurso completed the line.

--- and Inverness opened, reducing the journey from 60 miles (96km) to 35 miles (56km).

There were also several branch lines of the HR. From the south, these were:

--- the Aberfeldy branch;

--- the 1884 , closed 7 August 1915

--- the 1931

--- the Hopeman branch: also closed 14 September 1931

--- the , closed 1869 as being a failure

--- the Fort George branch: also closed 14 September 1931

--- the 1951

--- the 1946 , closed to freight 26 March 1951

There were two Light Railway s opened and run by the HR:

--- , again under the auspices of the Duke of Sutherland, 7.5 miles (12km), between The Mound and Dornoch ;

--- , 13.5 miles (21.6km). The line was abandoned on 3 April 1944 .

COMPANY OFFICERS

Chairman

1911 William Whitelaw

General Manager

1865-1896 Andrew Dougall

1896-1898 Charles Steel

1898-1910 Thomas Wilson

1911-1922 Robert Park

Chief Engineer

The Chief Engineer (CE) of the originally proposed Perth and Inverness Railway was Joseph Mitchell. He held the same post for the Inverness and Nairn railway, the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway (that is the three that merged to form the Highland Railway). He relinquished the post in 1863. The work was then carried out by a private company (which just happened to be the one run by Mitchell), an arrangement that was terminated in June 1865 when the merger that formed the Highland Railway took effect.

June 1865 - 1869 J W Buttle (with title of 'Superintendent of Permanent Way'); later CEs included Peter Wilson 1870-1874; Murdoch Paterson 1875-1897; William Roberts 1898-1913 and Alexander Newlands 1914-1922.

Chief Mechanical Engineer

Inverness and Nairn railway

SEE ALSO

Locomotives Of The Highland Railway

REFERENCES

''The Railway Year Book for 1912'', The Railway Publishing Company Ltd

FURTHER READING

H.A. Vallance. ''The Highland Railway''. ISBN 1-899863-07-9.

EXTERNAL LINKS

The Highland Railway Society

The Highland Railway, includes a map of the system

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