GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound Livery_Silver Railfreight Distribution

Railfreight Distribution

alongside locos for Freightliner and DRS aboard the MV Stellanova on the 8th November 2006

each with a sprue of 20 friction elements and friction element spacers

and were linked to Staiths situated at Leamington by two separate railway branches

the conversion at BREL Crewe Works was completed in October 1986

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound Livery_Silver Railfreight DistributionThe 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