GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE Green - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon as fitted to new wagons

as fitted to new wagons between 1904 until circa 1916 and retained when anti-friction gear removed

000 miles of service

BSSW 26677 Outer

an incongruous sight among the more modern wagons being used

The First Opens

GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE Green - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon as fitted to new wagonsThe 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