GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Green Livery_BR Blue DGM 12 Hopper - BR

DGM 12 Hopper - BR Grey

Unpainted HYA with GBRf Coal branding

with 50017 and 50048 both gaining all three

it went first to Talywain Colliery before being transferred to the new Mountain Ash system where it worked until 1975

GSR800 - 800 Maedb - GSR Green Livery_BR Blue DGM 12 Hopper - BRThe 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