GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) Freight Type_Tippler Fully sprung metal buffers and

Fully sprung metal buffers and factory-installed pipework

50029 Renown was the last of 14 examples to gain the same paint job as Royal Oak in June 1987

60074 was outshopped from Brush Works in Loughborough on 29th October 1991

the increasingly unreliable Hunslets—despite sharing an engine and many mechanical and electrical components with the BR Class 20s—were replaced in 1980 with General Motors 111 Class locomotives

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) Freight Type_Tippler Fully sprung metal buffers andThe 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