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Highland Railway Liveries by Howard Geddes Dathan na Gaidhealtachd w/ dust jacke
Highland Railway Liveries by Howard Geddes Dathan na Gaidhealtachd
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Reflections for the lights on some photos
Copyright 1995
108 pages
CONTENTS
Introduction6
Objective and Aims6
Structure and Scope6
Chapter 1 - Locomotive Livery and Insignia7
The Earliest Days - William Barclay (1855-1865) 7
William Stroudley (1865-1870)8
David Jones (1870-1896)11
Peter Drummond (1896-1912)17
Frederick Smith (1912-1915)19
Christopher Cumming (1915-1922)21
David Urie (1922)24
Into LMS Days25
Final Notes25
Highland Green25
Regarding No. 2 Ben Alder26
Regarding 'Big Goods' Nos. 103-827
Regarding No. 108's works grey 28
Regarding misleading photographs28
Table 1- Locomotive Livery30
Table 2 - Locomotive Insignia36
Chapter 2 - Coaching Stock Livery andInsignia 39
Coach Green39
Two-tone Livery39
Varnish and Pullman Liveries40
Insignia40
Label Boards43
Carriage Sheets45
Table 3 - Carriage Livery46
Table 4 - Carriage Insignia47
Tables 5, 5A - Carriage Interiors 48
Colour Section49
Chapter 3 - Non-Passenger Coaching Stock53
Table 6 - Non-Passenger Coaching Stock55
Chapter 4 - Goods Vehicles57
Table 7 - Goods Vehicles58
Wagon Sheets and Ropes63
Private Owner wagons64
Chapter 5 - Non-Revenue Earning Vehicles65
Table 8 - Non-Revenue Earning Vehicles66
Chapter 6 - Lineside67
Buildings67
Signalling68
Signal Ladders68
Shunt Signals68
Signal Wire Posts68
Table 9 - Buildings and Associated Structures69
Table 10 - Signalling and allied Apparatus73
Table 11- Miscellaneous Items74
Chapter 7 - Locomotive Cast Number Plates and Numerals75
Stroudley / Jones -1865-189675
Drummond I -1898-190475
Drummond II -1905 on75
Cumming -1915 on80
Duplicate Suffixes81
Number Plate positioning81
Chapter 8 - Manufacturers' Works Plates83
The Manufacturers83
Table 12 - Works Plate Style and Usage87
Lochgorm Works89
Chapter 9 - Lamp Codes91
Chapter 10 - LMS and BR Liveries95
Locomotives95
Coaches98
Non-Passenger Coaching Stock100
Goods Vehicles100
Departmental Stock101
Lineside101
Bibliography104
Index105
Acknowledgements108
The Highland Railway has always held a particular fascination for students and railway historians on both sides of the border: a fascination which is often quite independent of any other specific interests or allegiances which the reader may have. The explanation no doubt lies partly in the fascinating geography and history of the railways north of Perth but must also reflect the distinctively different 'Highland' way of doing things-
It is this 'distinctively different' nature of the Highland Railway which forms the focus of this book wherein Howard Geddes and Eddie Bellass have drawn together the many disparate strands of the story of Highland Liveries, mostly during the independent pre-1923 phase but with valuable supplementary data for the subsequent period too-
Viewed purely objectively, the Highland's liveries followed much the same principles as those of many other British systems hut when allied to the often unique nature of the company 'hardware', they undoubtedly added to the overall character of the system and this book brings this information together in one single source for the very first time.
The authors have been greatly assisted in their task by the often tireless research carried out by many Highland enthusiasts (some of them, sadly, no longer with us), not least in the more recent bringing together of like minded Highland devotees in the shape of the Highland Railway Society, full details of which will he found elsewhere in the book.
It is confidently expected that this book, like all previous collaborative efforts between the publisher and the Historical Model Railway Society, will soon become the definitive statement on the subject matter concerned.
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