GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound In Stock Coaches A real go anywhere locomotive

A real go anywhere locomotive and is suitable for use right up to the present day

It was fitted with a Giesl ejector and underfeed stoker sometime in 1966 before transferring to Bickerhsaw Colliery in Leigh and allocated the rather catchy number 63/000/432

ACC2968 BSc South Wales grey - Pack 1

where it was allocated the number 655/29/38 and painted into Tarmac’s in-house livery of Olive

Tadpole Classification

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound In Stock Coaches A real go anywhere locomotiveThe 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