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each with individual running number and decoration

• Factory-fitted detail parts (brake pipes

having swapped North London for Gateshead via a spell at Finsbury Park

turnout decoders can remain powered even if a track section shorts

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Grey - DCC Sound Accessory Type_Bufferstops 375011375096375124The 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