page_title: Locomotives of the Great North of Scotland Railway
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Locomotives of the Great North of Scotland Railway / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Gordon Highlander takes on coal in 1964
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: On 1 January 1923 the Great North of Scotland became a part of the Scottish division of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), who received a total of 122 locomotives, 100 4-4-0 tender locomotives and 22 tank engines, all capable of being used on either passenger or goods trains. The LNER reclassified the stock and renumbered them by adding 6800 to the former GNoSR stock number. Forty-four locomotives were still in service when the railway was nationalised in 1948, and the last two GNoSR locomotives to be withdrawn were, Nos. 43 and 30, two of the Aberdeen harbour tanks in 1960.
  Class F No. 49, Gordon Highlander, numbered by the LNER No. 6849 after the Grouping, No. 2277 in 1946 and No. 62277 by British Rail on nationalisation, was restored to GNoSR green in 1958, although it had not previously carried the green livery as it appeared in Heywood's lined black. It was used on special trains before becoming a static exhibit at the Glasgow Transport Museum in 1965, and is currently on loan to Scottish Railway Museum at Bo'ness.
caption: Gordon Highlander taking on coal in 1964
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