262997/1949 - West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority No. 1 - Ruston Works' Green - DCC Sound FittedRuston 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,

Resurrected at Barrow Hill it returned to the main line in November 2022 in an extraordinary shade of 'tango' orange that originally debuted on his former Class 20/3 machines in 2012

110 chemically blackened OO gauge wheel sets

Customised Dual-Speaker Technology with large ‘Accurathrash’ Style Bass Speaker and smaller 'iphone' style cube for higher frequencies (on DCC Sound-fitted models only)

SR D1479 Van - Modified SR Livery - Triple Pack 2

9021 – ‘Argyll and Sutherland Highlander’

Apr-19 to presentClassic InterCity Swallow livery with Modern OHLE Flashes

and – for those machines that previously wore Compass branding – the plated central window on both sides of the body

for Thorpe Marsh Power Station

Mark 2b SO - 823

most curiously

which was transferred to Reading from the Scottish Region

these figures are designed and produced in the UK specifically for Accurascale