Neilsons offered to build between ten and twenty further locomotives of the class T design.

The GNSR Board of Directors granted permission for ten locomotives of a slightly modified design incorporating a side-window cab, and Neilson, Reid & Co. were awarded the contract that November (Neilsons order no.

[2][3] Delivery commenced in October 1899, but by the time that the first five locomotives had been received by the GNSR (class V; numbers 113–115, 25, 26), they found that a downturn in traffic meant that not only were the remaining five not required, but that they would also be unable to pay for them.

They were duly sold to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway for £3,300 each, where they became that company's class G.[2][3] An offer from the SECR to purchase the first five as well, but at £3,325 each, was turned down by the GNSR.

[3] On 11 October 1899, Neilsons contacted the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR), which had recently placed a locomotive order with them.

[3] The SECR was an organisation which had been formed on 1 January 1899, and which was short of express passenger locomotives for the former London, Chatham and Dover Railway routes, which had a weight limit.

Restored to GNSR green in 1958[10] (though it never carried green livery in GNSR service since it originally appeared in Heywood's lined black),[11] it was given an occasional airing on specials before retirement to the Glasgow Transport Museum.

On 13 June 1964, Gordon Highlander was used on the "Solway Ranger" railtour of Cumbria, on the section between Carlisle and Silloth.