GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey Charity Fund-Raisers 2 Preservation Group project

2 Preservation Group project

GBRf Tarmac with VTG logos

BR built a total of 875 of these Kernow icons across several batches from 1954 up until 1960

speed recorder and end brake rigging

with a working

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey Charity Fund-Raisers 2 Preservation Group projectThe 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