GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light GreenThe three 4 6 0 Class 800 locomotives; 800 Mae, 801 Maa and 802 Tilte, were designed by the Great Southern Railways Chief Mechanical Engineer Edgar Bredin and his chief draughtsman, H. C Beaumont and represented a quantum leap forward in Irish locomotive design, being the first three cylinder express locomotives built in the country. By the mid 1930s, the top link Dublin Cork services had reached a critical loading point, where the existing fleet of 4

Sprung buffers

SR Mixed D1478/D1479 Van - Transitional British Railways - Triple Pack

Converted from 1/119 and 1/120 diagrams at Perth between 1985 and 1987

with waste and building materials being transported to and from the collieries

31004 - Blue Tara Mines Livery

31006 - Red Oxide

DART and the then new Arrow Services

Stored by EWS at Motherwell in April 2005

now all scrapped

Another smaller feature on this locomotive was the relocation of the injectors to above the running plate ahead of the cab

silver buffers

did not have an opportunity to pursue his legendary innovativeness to the same extent in Ireland