{"id":1260,"date":"2019-05-14T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T07:20:50","slug":"monday-13th-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"Monday 13th May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1253 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190508_115714-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Alan inspects Cumbria's left hand piston gland\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190508_115714-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190508_115714-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190508_115714-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190508_115714-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Ade got up bright and early again last Wednesday to put <em>Cumbria<\/em> over the pit at Preston before putting a small fire in the firebox ready for a test steaming. Alan and Tim then dismantled the left hand piston rod gland and found the metallic packings to have fragmented, confirming this as the cause of a steam leak when the loco was under load. Soft packing material was located and fitted prior to steam being raised to maximum. Tim and then Ade took <em>Cumbria<\/em> for trips up and down the yard in order to test the new packings and the steam brake before Ade loaded up the spare springs.<\/p>\n<p>Friday saw John Davis and Phil Bell descend on <em>Cumbria<\/em> to clear the coal bunker and to give it a final clean and polish. Tim meanwhile removed the lubrication pipes to the piston rod and valve spindles to be cleaned out. The oil pots were replenished with fresh oil and the trimmings cleaned, primed with oil and replaced to give a steady satisfying drip of oil over the rods and spindles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1254 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190510_152443-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Fred with paint brush\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190510_152443-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190510_152443-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190510_152443-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190510_152443-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Work has again continued on <em>Fluff<\/em>, FR 20 and <em>Wootton Hall<\/em>. Fred is seen here painting <em>Wootton Hall<\/em>&#8216;s tender tank in between heavy showers of rain. News from Leicestershire is that machining work on the wheelsets for <em>Caliban<\/em> and the tenders for <em>Wootton Hall<\/em> and FR20 has been completed and arrangements are now being made for their return to Preston. One of the additional tasks undertaken was removing a score from one of the crank pins on <em>Caliban<\/em>&#8216;s wheels. Jeff at CMS Cepcor kindly sent us this <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Crank-pin.mov\">short video of the crank pin being machined &#8211; click on this link to view<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1259\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cumbria-leaving-RSR.jpg\" alt=\"Cumbria heading for Embsay 130519\" width=\"840\" height=\"408\" \/>Today saw <em>Cumbria<\/em> loaded and despatched to Embsay where it will join the Trust&#8217;s GWR 0-6-2T No. 5643. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1258\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5643-and-Illingworth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" \/>We show here a photo of 5643 double heading with <em>Illingworth<\/em>, also a recent temporary resident at Preston, courtesy of the Embsay Locomotive Department Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ade got up bright and early again last Wednesday to put Cumbria over the pit at Preston before putting a small fire in the firebox ready for a test steaming. Alan and Tim then dismantled the left hand piston rod gland and found the metallic packings to have fragmented, confirming this as the cause of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 13th May 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-1260","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\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}