leaving Boultham Works on 27 January 1949 for the Birchills Power Station in Walsall
allowing operation over a minimum radius of 371mm (1st radius set-track)
Luckily it was bought by scrap merchant Dai Woodham and spent a number of years languishing before being moved to the Dean Forest Railway and returned to steam in 1984
It was withdrawn from Wellington shed in 1962 before being scrapped
which became a QXA brake force runner for the Civil Engineer’s Mobile Track Assessment fleet in early 1987 and usually operated with DB 977339
HE3806 - Wilbert Accessory leaving Boultham Works on 27Wilbert as we have come to know him, was built by Hunslet, Leeds, in 1953. One of a number of postwar austerities, ordered by the National Coal Board. It was delivered in December that year to Rawnsley loco shed, Staffordshire for its first employment in the South Staffordshire coalfield and was painted a light green colour. Works number 3806 led an average working life, moving around the coalfield to Cannock shed, and then West Cannock. At some point