HE3806 - Wilbert Accessory It was withdrawn from Wellington

It was withdrawn from Wellington shed in 1962 before being scrapped

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)

including regular bouts of Eastfield ‘Westies’

Network Rail test trains

HE3806 - Wilbert Accessory It was withdrawn from WellingtonWilbert as we have come to know him, was built by Hunslet, Leeds, in 1953.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