GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved Freight Type_Van Remained in service until 1992

Remained in service until 1992

Seen as very much the ‘missing link’ in the ‘Powering Britain’ range

large LED tail lights and MW socket

50019 was withdrawn with main generator damage while still wearing this paint job in September 1990

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved Freight Type_Van Remained in service until 1992The 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