{"id":1232,"date":"2019-04-23T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:34:15","slug":"tuesday-23rd-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 23rd April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief post-Easter update this week for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1227 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_143525-e1556029734243-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alan peers into the fireman's side clackbox on Cumbria\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_143525-e1556029734243-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_143525-e1556029734243-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_143525-e1556029734243-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_143525-e1556029734243-1200x2133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>Work at Preston last Wednesday concentrated on following up issues brought to light from the test steaming of <em>Cumbria<\/em> two days earlier. Alan is seen here peering into the fireman&#8217;s side clackbox to try and identify the cause of a small steam pass.<\/p>\n<p>John Dixon spent an uncomfortable time underneath the loco on replacing cotters which hold the ashpan in place. He then set about cleaning out the slide bar trimmings on Friday. <em>Cumbria<\/em> is due for another steam test tomorrow (Wednesday) and is then due to take part in the RSR&#8217;s Spring Steam Gala this weekend. After that, if all is well, it should shortly be heading off to Embsay to join the FRT&#8217;s GWR 0-6-2T No. 5643 which is currently holding the fort there until reinforcements arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Work on our Fowler 0-4-0DM <em>Fluff<\/em> continues and it is hoped to lift out the engine in the not-too-distant future, assuming that a shunt can be arranged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1228\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145203-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Scales and John Davis at work on Wootton Hall's tender tank\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145203-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145203-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145203-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145203-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Finally, outside the shed, work has continued on cleaning off and painting of <em>Wootton Hall<\/em>&#8216;s recently purchased tender tank. In action on this are Phil Scales and John Davis (above) and Ed Tatham (below).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1229\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145215A-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ed paints Wootton Hall's tender tank\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145215A-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145215A-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145215A-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190417_145215A-1200x2133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief post-Easter update this week for you&#8230; Work at Preston last Wednesday concentrated on following up issues brought to light from the test steaming of Cumbria two days earlier. Alan is seen here peering into the fireman&#8217;s side clackbox to try and identify the cause of a small steam pass. John Dixon spent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 23rd April 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}