The

Great Southern Railways The Great Southern Railways Company (often Great Southern Railways, or GSR) was an Irish company that from 1925 until 1945 owned and operated all railways that lay wholly within the Irish Free State (the present-day Republic of Ireland). The p ...

(GSR) Class 280 were 0-4-0T locomotives built by

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in 1927.

Design

The design consisted of a vertical boiler inside the cab surrounded by the coal bunker and water tanks and the cylinders mounted vertically between the axles. The design was similar to others Sentinel has provided to other companies. The

LNER Class Y3 The LNER Class Y3 was a class of 0-4-0 geared steam locomotives built by Sentinel Waggon Works for the London and North Eastern Railway and introduced in 1927. They passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and were numbered 68154-68185 ...

and

GWR No. 12 GWR No. 12 is a Sentinel geared steam locomotive which was built for the Great Western Railway and delivered in 1926. Its Sentinel works number is 6515. It was equipped to work train vacuum brakes and to provide steam heat for passenger trains. ...

are examples of a broadly similar design.

Service

The locomotive design had a low cost operating cost and suited to shunting and tight radius curve. Initially allocated to Cork and Tralee by 1932 both had moved to Limerick and worked the market siding. Following the closure of the market siding in 1940 they lay idle until disposal in 1940.

Railcars

A similar power unit was also used in four GSR Railcars introduced in 1932.

References

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