GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE (FS) Accessory Type_Wheelset 4mm back-to-back measurements

4mm back-to-back measurements

By the time of its withdrawal with a seized power unit at the same time as 50046 Ajax in March 1992 it was one of the last of the six 100mph EE Type 4s still active

This was eventually realised in November 2018 when the Class 37/4 returned to the main line

Sprung buffers & dummy screw link couplers

set at correct colour temperature

GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE (FS) Accessory Type_Wheelset 4mm back-to-back measurementsThe 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