262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' GreenRuston 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,

5754 was the 4th member of the 57xx class to be built at Swindon

Dummy knuckle coupler provided in polybag

was delivered to their Tottenham Gasworks site on 2 October 1947

in 1969-70 to five designs (out of 250 Mk

it lost its Hercules name in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer Sir Edward Elgar – who had no connection with Brunel’s famous railway

Original nose grilles

Sixteen spoke

end brake rigging and very fine brake chain

5741 emerged from Queens Park works

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with the exception of the Original Class 37 which can be found here

Welded roof with plated boiler exhaust and small cab roof vent