GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey - DCC Sound Accessory Type_Bufferstops Exhaust ports

Exhaust ports

door securing pins

Replica scale

having swapped North London for Gateshead via a spell at Finsbury Park

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey - DCC Sound Accessory Type_Bufferstops Exhaust portsThe 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