When New Mills performs in it's early 1960s guise the new dawn of electric haulage on the WCML is represented by an AL1 of somewhat mixed parentage. The body is a post-Trix model from one of a number of batches produced by Lilliput in the 1970s. It differs slightly from other Lilliput examples that modeller Phill Hutchings has in his collection so we may never know it's true provenance. Resprayed in Railmatch Electric Blue with Fox transfers and retaining its original number 3001, it sits on, or more accurately has been forced onto, a Hornby Class 86 chassis with some reworking. Don't look too close!
Currently undergoing further detailing ahead of the Derby Exhibition in May it will remain in service until the arrival of the Bachmann AL5 and hopefully other derivatives! In the meantime its spirited performance as it races through New Mills hauling our principal passenger services nicely captures the early days of that new era.
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