GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Livery_Intercity in February 2011

in February 2011

Highlights

‘thunderbird’

While Harry Needle is most closely associated with Class 20s

60074 was selected for repainting into a striking light-blue livery

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Livery_Intercity in February 2011The 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