Frederick George Smith

Frederick George Smith (1872–1956) was a British locomotive engineer who served briefly as Locomotive Superintendent of the Highland Railway at Lochgorm, Inverness from 1912 to 1915. His resignation followed the failure of his ill-judged 'River Class' 4-6-0 of 1915, a powerful and well-engineered design that was, however, too heavy for the Highland's lightly-laid permanent way and was sold straight from new to the Caledonian Railway.

Born at Glasgow on 4 September 1872, Smith was apprenticed at the Hyde Park Works of NBL's predecessor and worked in the GER drawing office at Stratford under James Holden. He succeeded Peter Drummond in 1912 and was succeeded by Christopher Cumming after the River Class incident. He worked in commercial engineering until his retirement and died at Loughborough on 20 December 1956.