GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Green Livery_BR Blue Ruston Works No

Ruston Works No

particularly Birmingham/Crewe-Bangor/Holyhead

it went first to Talywain Colliery before being transferred to the new Mountain Ash system where it worked until 1975

with Numbered Limited Edition Certificate

with 50017 and 50048 both gaining all three

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Green Livery_BR Blue Ruston Works NoThe 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