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The Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) Class P were an 0-6-0T tank locomotive designed by
Martin Atock Martin Atock, also formerly known as Martin Attock, was an English railway engineer, who is best known as the Locomotive Superintendent of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) from 1872 to 1900. Life Atock was born in June 1834 in Presto ...
introduced in 1881 designed for shunting and banking round North Wall freight yard. After 1925 they became
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 614 / Inchicore class J10.


Fleet

The MGWR P class were known as ''Heavy Tanks''. In particular No. 102 was rebuilt with armour-plating in 1922 and was unofficially known as '' King Tutenkamen''.


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