GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Livery_GBrF Bufferbeam cowling with large round

Bufferbeam cowling with large round Oleo buffers

Wagon B 25073

and wears classic 1970s BR blue

and is operational

NEM standard coupler pockets with ‘kinematic’ close coupling functionality

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Livery_GBrF Bufferbeam cowling with large roundThe 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