262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite with SR Standard Brown sole

with SR Standard Brown sole bar and black ironwork

22407 B MSO

lacking the raised chambers of the passenger tanks

with a number of differing lettering styles being utilised

This pack includes a hopper with factory-installed illuminated flashing tail lamp

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite with SR Standard Brown soleRuston 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,