Highland Railway

of Inverness, Scotland

• The Highland Railway (HR) was one of the smaller railways before the grouping; it operated north of Perth railway station in Scotland and served the farthest north and south of Britain. It was absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.

• 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), and arrangement that was terminated in June 1865 when the merger that formed the Highland Railway took effect.

• 1865 The company dates, under its present title, from 1865.

• 1888 See Locomotive Stock June 1888

• 1908 The number of miles of line owned is 485.

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

• Inverness and Nairn Railway

• Alexander Allan December 1854 May 1865' Worked through a local representative - his nephew William Barclay.
• David Jones May 1865 - Dec 1865 temporary appointment
• William Stroudley Jan 1866 - Jan 1870
• David Jones Jan 1870-1896
• Peter Drummond 1896 - Dec 1911
• F. G. Smith Dec 1911 - Aug 1915
• Christopher Cumming Sept 1915 1922
• D. C. Urie 1922