Highland Railway
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The Highland Railway was a Scottish railway company which was grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Amongst others, it operated the Highland Main Line, The Kyle of Lochalsh Line and The Far North Line.
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Company Officers
Chairman
General Manager
July 1855 ? 1896 Andrew Dougall
1896 1898 Charles Steel
1898 Thomas Wilson
Chief Engineer
The Chief Engineer 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.
June 1865 to - J W Buttle (with title of 'Superintendant of Permanent Way').
Murdoch Paterson
William Roberts
Chief Mechanical Engineer
Inverness and Nairn railway
December 1854 to May 1865 Alexander Allan.
worked through a local representative - his nephew William Barclay.
May 1865 to Approx Dec 1865 David Jones (temporary appointment)
Jan 1866 to Jan 1870 William Stroudley
Jan 1870 to 1896 David Jones
1896 to Dec 1911 Peter Drummond
Dec 1911 to Aug 1915 F G Smith
Sept 1915 to 1922 Christopher Cumming
1922 D C Urie
External link
- The Highland Railway Society (http://www.hrsoc.org.uk/)
- The Highland Railway at railscot.co.uk (http://www.railscot.co.uk/Highland_Railway/frame.htm)
| Major constituent railway companies of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway: |
Caledonian |
Furness |
Lancashire & Yorkshire |
Glasgow & South Western |
London and North Western |
Midland |
North Staffordshire |
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