HE3806 - Wilbert - DCC Sound Accessory Plated window one side

Plated window one side

being used across the Eastern

Trainload Coal (EWS Era)

Feb-99 to Jun-07

Blackened metal  12

HE3806 - Wilbert - DCC Sound Accessory Plated window one sideWilbert 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