HE3806 - Wilbert - DCC Sound Accessory with 1100 workers losing their

with 1100 workers losing their jobs

Plated window one side

Blackened metal  12

the NCB donated it to the National Museum of Wales who placed it on permanent loan to the Llangollen Railway where it was restored to steam in 1994

Optional overhead warning plate bracket on late-BR examples

HE3806 - Wilbert - DCC Sound Accessory with 1100 workers losing theirWilbert 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