Name: GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound
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GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound

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GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) - DCC SoundThe 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

a small number of wagons also received ‘Irish Cement’ branding

‘Intercity’ branding was replaced by Iarnród Éireann/Irish Rail branding

and have also been used occasionally on the dredged sand flow from Pengam to a similar range of destinations

Bauxite livery

Completed nearly six years after D6700 had left Vulcan Foundary

having split from the Aberdeen Service with two sleepers

Train Heating : Steam

It returned to traffic and proved a valuable member of the working fleet until its last boiler ticket expired in 1995

Early tapered

Cages are numbered:

with separate vacuum brake gear

BR Class 50 - BR Blue - D423