262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_VTG Add that bit of extra

Add that bit of extra realism to your Accurascale OO ICI Hopper wagons with this pack of five authentic loads

still in 'Dutch' colours

and may not be fully indicative of the final model

359 came from an earlier batch of ten locomotives built at Stratford in 1892 and was rebuilt in 1904 into the R24r Class

* Two styles of hopper door: 'X' pattern on coal variants and 'straight beam' pattern on CDA

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_VTG Add that bit of extraRuston 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,