GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey Livery_BR Crimson BR green with yellow nose

BR green with yellow nose panels

Two quality speakers with large sound capsules for best possible sound (*on sound fitted models)

It was initially outshopped from HNRC's workshops at Barrow Hill in BR blue

having only been preceded by No

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey Livery_BR Crimson BR green with yellow noseThe 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