GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) Livery_ECC Later renumbered 31001 it was

Later renumbered 31001 it was among the first ‘Toffee Apples’ – so named because of the shape of the power handle - to be withdrawn

Reinstated for service 3-Mar-97 and repainted into GNER blue with white logo (loco had been purchased in 1996 by Sea Containers)

draw gear and anti-friction gear

to add full bodied sound to your Accurascale diesel and electric DCC ready locomotives

while others contain mixed styles where research has shown that they operated in conjunction with each other

GSR800 - 802 Tailte - CIE (FS) Livery_ECC Later renumbered 31001 it wasThe 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