GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound Tara Mines Wagons D1479 pattern

D1479 pattern

By the late 1930’s 7755 gained the then new “shirt button” GWR logo and was transferred to Llanelly shed

This saw it given a crest above the nameplate on each side – notably in BR service it had only worn a single example

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GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound Tara Mines Wagons D1479 patternThe 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