Highland Railway Clan Class

The Highland Railway Clan Class were passenger 4-6-0s designed by Christopher Cumming. The design is derived from that of the slightly earlier Clan Goods although the similarity is more visual than real.

They had 21 inch by 26 inch cylinders outside with outside Walschaerts valve gear, 6 ft 0 inch driving wheels and a boiler pressured to 175 lb/sq inch. Weight was 62 tons 5 cwt for the locomotive and 42 tons for the tender.

Piston valve diameter is given as 10 inches (quite large for the period), but they had the conventional short lap, short travel valves. Bearing in mind that they probably spent a large part of their time slogging uphill or coasting down this was probably not too important.

Total heating surface (including superheater) is given as 1723 sq feet and grate area as 25.5 sq feet.

Four were built in 1919, they were

          49    Clan Campbell
          51    Clan Fraser
          52    Clan Munro
          53    Clan Stewart

Four more arrived in 1921

          54    Clan Chattan
          55    Clan Mackinnon
          56    Clan Mackenzie
          57    Clan Cameron

Only Clan Mackinnon survived into British Railways hands.

Early in 1921 Clan Stewart was used for experiments with oil firing. They seem to have been successful, but was not applied to any other locomotives. Just when Clan Stewart reverted to coal operation does not seem to be recorded.

The LMS classified them '4P'.