Electric Locomotive
During Hughes' time at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway an experimental electric locomotive (rebuilt from a steam locomotive of 2-4-2 wheel arrangement) was introduced in 1912 for goods traffic. This had four 150 horsepower motors (total 600 hp) and could pick up current from the third rail on the main line or from overhead lines in the Aintree and North Mersey yards. It was scrapped in 1919.
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