United States Army Transportation Corps, class S160 2-8-0 5197 is ready to depart from Bury Bolton Street station with the 13:00 service to Rawtenstall during the East Lancs Railway 1940’s Wartime Weekend, 24th May 2009. The S160 was designed in May 1942 by Major J.W. Marsh from the Railway Branch of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps would later become a part of the Transportation Corps (USATC). The S160 was an Austerity design with many features chosen for fast construction rather than long life, eg. axlebox grease lubricators were used, and rolled plates were preferred to castings. Around eight hundred were shipped to the United Kingdom during 1943/44 and around four hundred were utilised by the UK Railways prior to their transfer to Europe during 1944/45. 5197 however was not one of these locomotives and was delivered direct from the USA to China in 1945 and where it worked until the mid 1990s as Chinese State Railway's class KD6 No 463. It was rescued from being broken up by the Chinese and brought to the UK in 1995, being delivered to the Llangollen Railway for restoration, entering service in 1999. In 2001 it moved to the Churnet Valley Railway where it is normally based.