GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved Freight Type_Van Recommended for the following locomotives

Recommended for the following locomotives from Run 1 of our Class 60 Locomotives:

Seen as very much the ‘missing link’ in the ‘Powering Britain’ range

When the locomotive fleets were divided into sectorised pools in the second half of that decade 31301 was initially allocated to departmental work

50019 was withdrawn with main generator damage while still wearing this paint job in September 1990

Mark 2b SO (ex-FO)- 925

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved Freight Type_Van Recommended for the following locomotivesThe 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