GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Livery_GBrF and is operational

and is operational

Liveried in the company’s distinctive ‘Panhard Red’

NEM standard coupler pockets with ‘kinematic’ close coupling functionality

as the class 66’s were the “go anywhere” type at EWS’s disposal

‘3806’ received its first name in August 1981

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Livery_GBrF and is operationalThe 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