262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green Livery_BR blue (Cantrail Stripe) called 'Walsall B'

called 'Walsall B'

Fastline’s small fleet of class 66 locomotives were acquired by DRS before being repainted into their house colours

the intense backlash put paid to any future rededications

22334 A3 DMSO

now all scrapped

262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green Livery_BR blue (Cantrail Stripe) called 'Walsall B'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,