GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Charity Fund-Raisers Pre-TOPS livery

Pre-TOPS livery

Rotating axlebox hubs (with alternate axlebox covers for earlier versions)

The Austerity was acquired by a group of members from the Dean Forest Railway and was delivered to Parkend in 1976

While the locomotive retained its unique flush rebuilt noses

super-fine pipework and screw couplings (for display)

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Charity Fund-Raisers Pre-TOPS liveryThe 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