GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE Green - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon GBRf Cemex with VTG Logos

GBRf Cemex with VTG Logos

The First Opens

As an extra special treat and recognising this loco's historic position as the first of the class to be named

2c Ph2 SO (ex-FO) 4103 Black Roof

GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE Green - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon GBRf Cemex with VTG LogosThe 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