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

Mark 2b SO (ex-FO)- 925

Seen as very much the ‘missing link’ in the ‘Powering Britain’ range

Remained in service until 1992

5741 emerged from Queens Park works

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