GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound Wagon Type_Weedsprayer Still controversial almost four decades

Still controversial almost four decades after being repainted

Despite their relative youth

the first Class 50 to be preserved with the official handover being performed by NSE Director Chris Green at the Old Oak Common open day

While the latter fell by the wayside

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound Wagon Type_Weedsprayer Still controversial almost four decadesThe 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