262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green HTO/HTV Hopper Tooling for anti-friction gear

Tooling for anti-friction gear

a feature removed from the final I89 order which were fitted with elliptical wooden cab roofs

Optional overhead warning plate bracket on late-BR examples

6-car Set 22034 comprising:

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green HTO/HTV Hopper Tooling for anti-friction gearRuston 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,