GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Highlander Mark 2b SO - 824

Mark 2b SO - 824

English Electric Type 3 (Class 37) - D6702

The universal nature of the Class 66 means that transfers and sales between owners/operators are relatively common

Arrangement is DT|T2|T3|T3|T1

50046 was only the second to be so treated after 50042 Triumph

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE Light Green Highlander Mark 2b SO - 824The 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