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Tag Archives: 5820

Tests on Lempor Fitted S160 No 5820

By John HindMar 2, 2017AST News5820, lempor, s160

On Saturday 4/2/17, Jamie Keyte, Mike Horne and John Hind went to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway to log the smokebox vacuum on S160 5820, a 2-8-0 built by Lima in 1945 for the United States Army Transportation Corps.  A Lempor exhaust for 5820 was designed by the Advanced Steam Traction Trust and fitted […]

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