GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound In Stock Coaches 31021 - Red Oxide

31021 - Red Oxide

Tadpole Classification

It was fitted with a Giesl ejector and underfeed stoker sometime in 1966 before transferring to Bickerhsaw Colliery in Leigh and allocated the rather catchy number 63/000/432

66724 was given a fresh coat of GBRF’s now standard dark blue in 2017

Distinctive underframe-mounted radar kit and roof antenna cutouts

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound In Stock Coaches 31021 - Red OxideThe 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