262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Freight Type_Open Wagon to take advantage of the

to take advantage of the full lighting suite

Choice of lift out sections: empty or simulated ‘coal’ load

Cutaway bufferbeam cowling with oval buffers

Two types of axle-box tooled: S4 double axleguard (10" x 5") and No

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Freight Type_Open Wagon to take advantage of theRuston 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,