Alice 0 - 4 - 2 Bagnal Industrial Locomotive

Although the South Downs Light Railway Society's members locomotives are generally 1/5th scale models of the full size main line originals, "Alice" is the charming exception being instead a 1/2 size replica of the Bagnall type that was built in Britian for use in industrial & mining locations all around the world.

Although "Alice" was completed in 2001, the story of how she came to be goes back a very long way, in fact to 1976 when the very young brothers Giles & Aiden Favell found themselves in a welsh valley where their father had become the vicar in a typical welsh mining village where steam was still in use, albeit only just.

Initial power for the perhaps inevitable garden railway was a petrol railcar, however this soon germinated into an idea for a real steam loco. It was however to be many years later that the brothers mother, herself called Alice, named the loco on a bright sunny day at the South Downs light Railway to fulfil that dream.