GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) Subclass_8750 Affectionately known as ‘bubbles’ due

Affectionately known as ‘bubbles’ due to their distinctive profile

Fuel tanks (As built and with later smooth-sided long range fuel tank)

Gummed branding labels with yellow dot

37418 was purchased by preservationist Steve Beniston from Toton at the end of 2007

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - CIE (FS) Subclass_8750 Affectionately known as ‘bubbles’ dueThe 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