GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved British Fuels - Three 4T ‘Black Waggons’

- Three 4T ‘Black Waggons’

Introduced in 1961

and it was scrapped and replaced with the second L91 which we have modelled here

PR26838 (ladder)

P7 Hopper - NCB Black

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved British Fuels - Three 4T ‘Black Waggons’The 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