262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite Cutdown HYA - Blue/Black with

Cutdown HYA -  Blue/Black with Touax/GB Railfreight branding  (Pack 3)

Exhauster Panel : Yes

Aggregate load on removable insert for your PTA Hopper Wagons

These remained in service on the private railway with 16 and 21-ton former BR stock until the mid-1990s

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite Cutdown HYA - Blue/Black withRuston 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,