262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite BR Lined Green with late

BR Lined Green with late Crest

Aggregate load on removable insert for your PTA Hopper Wagons

with a number of differing lettering styles being utilised

it can be seen here with the current day ‘europorte’ branding removed

lacking the raised chambers of the passenger tanks

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite BR Lined Green with lateRuston 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,