GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved - DCC Sound DCC_Working Interior Lighting yet mundane railway vehicles

yet mundane railway vehicles

for use at the Signalling & Telecommunications Department workshops at Reading and was delivered on 19 January 1957

Factory-fitted etched metal details where required

DRS Simplified Compass livery

HIGH PERFORMANCE TRACTION and MECHANISM

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved - DCC Sound DCC_Working Interior Lighting yet mundane railway vehiclesThe 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