HE3806 - Wilbert Accessory which became a QXA brake

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

It was withdrawn from Wellington shed in 1962 before being scrapped

including regular bouts of Eastfield ‘Westies’

GB Railfreight (Current Livery)

unlike the final I89 order that were painted in standard black with red lining

HE3806 - Wilbert Accessory which became a QXA brakeWilbert 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