262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' GreenRuston 262997 was built new for the West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority, leaving Boultham Works on 27 January 1949 for the Birchills Power Station in Walsall. Birchills came under the control of the WMJEA in 1925 and in 1944 it was decided that a new Station, Birchills B, should be constructed. The new power station, called 'Walsall B', officially opened on 30th September, 1949, and 262997 was responsible for shunting at the new Power Station,

375023 (Blue Frame)

Standard sleeper coach 15315

driving both bogies of the A3 DMSO only

Three styles of braking arrangement and brake handles

and mixed with other coal wagons such as 16t minerals (MCO)

along with a wide-rimmed

DRSL 92760

it was withdrawn from Aberbeeg shed in 1962 and scrapped

Fabricated Bogies

to a blackened 00 gauge RP25-88 profile

Provided DCC ready [21Pin MTC Socket] or Factory DCC Sound Fitted

safety catches