GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound Livery_Silver PowerPack stay-alive system and dual

PowerPack stay-alive system and dual speaker configuration to reproduce the characteristic sound and function of an BR Class 50 at work

Lamp irons

the conversion at BREL Crewe Works was completed in October 1986

Railfreight Distribution

the operating system ensures standardized

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green - DCC Sound Livery_Silver PowerPack stay-alive system and dualThe 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