GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) Subclass_8750 Steam heat was not a

Steam heat was not a requirement for the engineering trains so this was removed

based at nearby Norton Fitzwarren

24126 - CIE Bauxite

Its BR employment came to an end in August 1990 and it was sold to the Fifty Fund the following April

Fuel tanks (As built and with later smooth-sided long range fuel tank)

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) Subclass_8750 Steam heat was not aThe 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