GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey - DCC Sound Manor-Run2 Accessible sleeper coach 15207

Accessible sleeper coach 15207

Wagon C 25182

Direct Rail Services blue with original logos

This was part of the third group of 36 HYA/IIA vehicles to be converted following batches for VTG/GBRf and Touax Rail

which later was to become the Dean Forest Railway

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey - DCC Sound Manor-Run2 Accessible sleeper coach 15207The 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