GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE Green - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon Wheelbase of 209

Wheelbase of 209

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

with posable steel plate hoods in Blue British Steel Livery:

as well as cluttering up yards and stations or loads for trucks

The family were in agreement that it would be a wonderful idea so discussions with the DFR society then started

GSR800 - 801 Maca - CIE Green - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon Wheelbase of 209The 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