GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey DCC Standard Toolbox and steam heat removed

Toolbox and steam heat removed by NCB

Recommended Min Radius 2 Curves

Allocated to Stratford’s FAGS aggregates pool in March 1989 it was repainted in triple grey at Vic Berry Limited

Wagons are 240mm over buffers in length and 160g

FCA 610146 EWS + West Waste x3 (E031

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey DCC Standard Toolbox and steam heat removedThe 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