Irish Railway Books Containing GSR 800 CLASS

[M.G.W.R_CLASS_50_1939]

Hi everyone just wondering if anyone knows where i can buy books that contain the Great Southern Railways 800 Class 

[seagoebox]

The 800's featured in many, many books and magazines, I list just a few...

Locomotives of the GSR, Clements & McMahon, Colourpoint 2008

Irish Steam O S Nock, David & Charles 1982

The Journal of The Irish Railway Record Society

Five Foot Three, the magazine of the RPSI

The Railway Magazine and other monthly magazines including The Locomotive

Various modelling magazines.

Here is a photo to whet your appetite!

[leslie10646]

I see that @seagoebox has beaten me to it but the following may help?

Michael McMahon's book on GSR locos, which every student of railways in the Republic should have, has seven pages specifically on the 800s.

The May 1939 Railway Magazine has a bit about them.

Decade of Steam by Drew Donaldson et al has a section about them

IRRS Journal Volume 9, pages 260-277 has an article by the late Dave Murray and Vol 10 pages 109-111 has valuable comment on the said article.

There are many other shorter references in the Journal over the years.

A good reason to be a member!

I am campaigning to have a digital version of the Journal made available to MEMBERS in the future.

 

[Mol_PMB]

2 hours ago, seagoebox said:

The 800's featured in many, many books and magazines, I list just a few...

Locomotives of the GSR, Clements & McMahon, Colourpoint 2008

Irish Steam O S Nock, David & Charles 1982

The Journal of The Irish Railway Record Society

Five Foot Three, the magazine of the RPSI

The Railway Magazine and other monthly magazines including The Locomotive

Various modelling magazines.

Here is a photo to whet your appetite!

That photo illustrates just how mixed the express trains of the era were. If all your model carriages match, you’ve got it wrong!

There’s a mix of GSWR, MGWR, GSR and CIE stock in that train, plus a former Pullman car. Almost all gangwayed bogie stock though there could be a 6-wheel van or two on the back.