It also fails to explain how a loco built by the Irish Free State railway ended up preserved in N Ireland - but perhaps railway enthusiasm transcends borders and territorial disputes. Indeed, though it notes that modifications included a 'decrease in tractive effort' - it fails to explain why - a massive reduction in boiler pressure from 225 psi to 180 psi (presumably to reduce maintenance costs on the boiler). Wikipedia is helpful, but not terribly informative on what was arguably Ireland's premier steam loco design. (I thought the Queens had been used on Dublin-Belfast trains when, in fact, they were limited to Dublin - Cork.) To discover what I thought I knew was actually incorrect. (No, I wasn't trying to pick her up - but should anyone be tempted to use the line, I don't think it impressed her )īut, having forgotten what little I knew about the class after seeing Meabh (or Maeve? - spellings seem to vary) in Belfast in 1970, I did look up the class on Wikipedia, Seeing the thread Class 800 reminded me - and I had to check if it was about the Irish Class 800s, because, by coincidence, I met a woman by the name of Meabh last night, and i mentioned that there is an Irish steam locomotive named Meabh.
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