GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound Wagon Type_HOP24 HUO Birchalls burned ‘slack’ coal

Birchalls burned ‘slack’ coal

Blackened brass bearings conforming to accurascale standards of 14

Bowes Railway and the North Eastern Railway Association

metal pin jaw coupling and wire/etch handbrake levers

as it runs from London To Edinburgh (combined with the Fort William Pack) and then from Edinburgh to Aberdeen

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) - DCC Sound Wagon Type_HOP24 HUO Birchalls burned ‘slack’ 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