GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound Wagon Type_HOP24 HUO Scale-sized Brecknall-Willis High Speed pantograph

Scale-sized Brecknall-Willis High Speed pantograph raised and lowered by DCC control

Birchalls burned ‘slack’ coal

as it runs from London To Edinburgh (combined with the Fort William Pack) and then from Edinburgh to Aberdeen

British Railways Lined black livery

as EWS sought to widen its market in to the European Railfreight business

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound Wagon Type_HOP24 HUO Scale-sized Brecknall-Willis High Speed pantographThe 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