262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green HTO/HTV Hopper 6-car Set 22034 comprising:

6-car Set 22034 comprising:

Optional overhead warning plate bracket on late-BR examples

Tooling for anti-friction gear

While there was a brief burst of optimism in 2002 when it was purchased by Direct Rail Services as an engine test bed

Individual lettering

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green HTO/HTV Hopper 6-car Set 22034 comprising:Ruston 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,