262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_VTG * Two styles of hopper

* Two styles of hopper door: 'X' pattern on coal variants and 'straight beam' pattern on CDA

and may not be fully indicative of the final model

Pack of 3 Loads

the locomotive was allocated to Cambridge Shed from new and by Grouping was present at Peterborough East on shunting duties

the now renumbered 68535 remained in Scotland allocated to Dundee Shed 62B

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_VTG * Two styles of hopperRuston 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,