GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE (FS) Accessory Type_Wheelset Sprung buffers & dummy screw

Sprung buffers & dummy screw link couplers

Mark 2b SO (ex-FO)- 925

set at correct colour temperature

950 wagons built to this pattern

this locomotive differed to the first in that it didn’t have the top feed fitted and retained its back feed boiler right up to its final withdrawal in 1968

GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE (FS) Accessory Type_Wheelset Sprung buffers & dummy screwThe 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