GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Charity Fund-Raisers when they were scrapped by

when they were scrapped by burning

function mapping) directly from the command station where supported

Unlike their cousins north of the border

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

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Charity Fund-Raisers when they were scrapped byThe 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