Highland Railway Raigmore Class

The Highland Railway Raigmore Class was one of the earliest locomotive types associated with the Highland Railway's predecessor companies — specifically the Inverness and Nairn Railway — from the early 1860s. The Raigmore designation covers locomotives operating on the earliest sections of what would become the Highland Railway network, before the various constituent companies were amalgamated into the Highland Railway in 1865 and before William Stroudley established standardised locomotive practice at Inverness from that year.

The Raigmore is named after the area near Inverness that formed part of the Highland Railway's operational territory. Locomotives of this designation were likely small 2-2-2 or 2-4-0 passenger types acquired from outside manufacturers for the opening of the Inverness and Nairn Railway in 1855 — one of the first railways in the Highlands — and possibly for the subsequent extensions that formed the basis of the Highland Railway's network. Precise technical specifications for this early class are not fully documented in surviving records.

All Raigmore Class locomotives were superseded and withdrawn as David Jones and subsequent Highland Railway superintendents developed the railway's own standardised locomotive fleet from the late 1860s. None was preserved.