GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey Wagon Type_Ballast Hopper Unpainted HYA with GBRf Coal

Unpainted HYA with GBRf Coal branding

Battery compartment louvres: not fitted

5t minerals (MEO)

Also evident are slightly more polished areas than it would have had during squadron service as well as the mandatory OHLE warning flashes on the step areas

Boiler water tank converted to long range fuel tank

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey Wagon Type_Ballast Hopper Unpainted HYA with GBRf CoalThe 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