GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound In Production the doyen of the Class

the doyen of the Class 37/9s

It was finally stored unserviceable in May 1997 after being sidelined and reinstated several times and was acquired by A1A Locomotives Ltd exactly a year later as a source of spares for the restoration of 31108

It was delivered in December that year to Rawnsley loco shed

Stored at Throckmorton Airfield

While the latter fell by the wayside

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound In Production the doyen of the ClassThe 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