GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Green - DCC Sound Raillink while others were converted to

while others were converted to strengthen 80 Class DEMU sets or replace bomb-damaged vehicles

TOPS livery

and the following month saw it given white painted embellishments

Our model has an impressive 825g of weight to allow the powerful 5-pole motor and all-wheel drive to haul the very heaviest of trains

original windscreens

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Green - DCC Sound Raillink while others were converted toThe 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