262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite with a number of differing

with a number of differing lettering styles being utilised

Exhauster Panel : Yes

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

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

It was eventually scrapped at EMR Kingsbury in January 2008

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite with a number of differingRuston 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,