It was built in 1902 by the Hunslet Engine Company (works number 780) for the Dinorwic quarry at Llanberis, in North Wales.

Alice, in common with most of the class, did not have a dome but a steam chamber produced by the firebox outer shell being raised some six inches above the boiler barrel.

In the meantime, Alice’s frames and tank were recovered and taken to the West Lancashire Light Railway at Hesketh Bank, near Preston.

In 1977 these remains were acquired jointly by Alan Cliff and George Barnes, who was then the General Manager and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Bala Lake Railway.

Mrs Alice Hyde, whose son Bill was a driver on the Bala Lake Railway, had set up a bookstall to raise money for the locomotive’s restoration, and Scott promised that when the engine ran again it should be re-dedicated to and by its namesake and benefactor.

During the railway’s Steam Gala event on 10 September 1994, Mrs Hyde, who had travelled down from Bala in North Wales, re-dedicated the name of the locomotive Alice.

The loco was based at Leighton Buzzard for its first ten years of operation in preservation, following which it moved to Rheilffordd Llyn Tegid Bala Lake Railway, in 2003 where it was painted black.