GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) Mark 5 This Austerity was another wartime

This Austerity was another wartime product

Era specific Fyffe's Labels

for use at the East Cannock Colliery in Staffordshire

In total 13 locomotives were bought by LT although only 11 ever ran at once

English Electric Type 3 (Class 37) - 37001

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) Mark 5 This Austerity was another wartimeThe 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