Description
MODEL FEATURES:
- Bachmann Narrow Gauge OO9 Scale
- Era 2
- Pristine Dinorwic Quarry Red livery
- Named ‘Alice’
- Etched Name Plates and Works Plates Included
- NEM Coupling Pockets
- Powerful Coreless Motor and Flywheel
- Detailed and decorated cab interior
- Equipped with a 6 Pin DCC Decoder Socket
- Length 58mm (over couplings)
DETAIL VARIATIONS SPECIFIC TO THIS MODEL
- Open Cab
- Dumb Buffers (two lengths supplied)
- Angled Frames
- Backhead Injectors
- Ramsbottom Safety Valves
- Riveted Water Tank
- Wrap Around Tank Handrail
- Tank-mounted Tool Rests
- Single Smokebox-mounted Lubricator
- Blower supply fitted to left hand side of locomotive
‘ALICE’ HISTORY (with grateful thanks to The Quarry Hunslet website)
Built in 1902 with works number 780, ‘Alice’ is the sister engine to Holy War (No. 779). She worked at the Dinorwic Quarries until about 1960. She was then used for spare parts at the quarry and purchased as a source of spare parts by the then-owner of Holy War. In 1977 the remaining parts were gathered together at the Bala Lake Railway.
In 1987 the remains were purchased by Chris Scott and work started on restoration. The remains were later moved to the owner’s garage, the Ffestiniog Railway and then to the Leighton Buzzard Railway who agreed to finance the new boiler. Alice returned to steam in 1994.
