GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved Freight Type_Van Mark 2b SO (ex-FO)- 925

Mark 2b SO (ex-FO)- 925

When the locomotive fleets were divided into sectorised pools in the second half of that decade 31301 was initially allocated to departmental work

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50019 was withdrawn with main generator damage while still wearing this paint job in September 1990

This locomotive was built in August 2003 for HSBC Rail and leased to ERS Railways (formerly European Rail Shuttle) in the Netherlands and was given their fleet number 6608

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - Preserved Freight Type_Van Mark 2b SO (ex-FO)- 925The 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