The train was powered by many lead-acid batteries, and was used on the Deeside Railway from Aberdeen to Ballater in Scotland from April 1958 until it was finally withdrawn in December 1966.

The board promised to supply power at three farthings per unit for a fixed two-year period.

Because each set of batteries weighed about eight tons, the underframe of the carriages needed strengthening,[2] at a budgeted cost of £2,000.

[1] It lasted in this role until it was withdrawn in 1984, and was eventually bought for preservation at the proposed West Yorkshire Transport Museum, where it was returned to working order.

The museum placed it on loan to the East Lancashire Railway in 1994 where, after asbestos was removed and the batteries refurbished, it was used on some services until 2000.