Alice
Alice is a Quarry class locomotive built by Hunslet in 1902 with a builder's number of 780. It was rescued from the Australia Level in Dinorwic and was put into store in Boston Lodge and was on static display there during the Hunslet 100 Gala in 1993. In 1994, before being returned to steam, it was again displayed at Boston Lodge.
Alice visited the WHR(C) on 19-20 September 1998 for the first Enthusiasts' Weekend. The loco was based at the Leighton Buzzard Railway [1] for its first ten years of operation in preservation, following which it moved to Rheilffordd Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake Railway) [2], where it has been repainted in black.
Alice visited the Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) for its Narrow Gauge & Industrial Gala, 5-7 May 2007, where it hauled demonstration trains of slate wagons as well as passenger trains during the three day event. A return was scheduled on 3-5 May 2008 for the the "Hunslet: Generations" gala.
Alice on the Ffestiniog Railway at Boston Lodge, Porthmadog, Wales, 30 May 1994. Photo by Pat & David Othen
This image has been located on NIC.FUNET.FI "Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990"
Some of the information about the visiting Hunslets is from the book "Quarry Hunslets of North Wales" by Cliff Thomas.
