Electric Autocar No.3170 is paired with Autocoach No.3453 in service on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway in August 2022. An autocoach has controls at one end allowing the driver to operate the train without the need to run round.

Although well matched to the autocoach, this was unlikely to have occurred before withdrawal, certainly not in pre grouping days when the petrol engine was only powerful enough to propel the autocoach itself.