HE3806 - Wilbert Locomotive Archive cab step and door kickplates

cab step and door kickplates

Windshield air vents: present

Leading cab side window: plated over

Six years later it also became the last Type 3 to carry Regional Railways livery and it was switched off in July 2000

HE3806 - Wilbert Locomotive Archive cab step and door kickplatesWilbert 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