262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green ERA_Departmental Vacuum brake fitted and running

Vacuum brake fitted and running on roller bearing axle boxes

HYA 371026

110 profile wheelsets with 14

factory-fitted pipework and screw couplings (for display)

Shed codes

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green ERA_Departmental Vacuum brake fitted and runningRuston 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,