GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved - DCC Sound Northern Ireland Railways County Durham on 5 January

County Durham on 5 January 1959

Glendower was one of the 93 locomotives completed by Hunslet in the years after the war

37297 (originally D6997)

Designed specifically for the accurascale Class 37  locomotive with ‘Refurbished’  Engine Configuration

• Individual lettering

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved - DCC Sound Northern Ireland Railways County Durham on 5 JanuaryThe 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