{"id":1395,"date":"2019-08-20T00:12:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T07:12:21","slug":"monday-19th-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Monday 19th August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BritanniaWe arrived at Preston on Wednesday to hear the distant sound of a steam chime whistle and later found out that it was none other than 70000 Britannia<\/em> on a northbound run through Preston to Carlisle. Just for the record, here is a photo of the loco heading back south through Lancaster at speed with The Lakelander<\/em> just after 5 pm.<\/p>\n

\"JohnTim and John Dixon virtually completed the painting of FR 20’s frames, motion and wheels on Wednesday. John is seen here painting some of the motion.<\/p>\n

\"GleamingThe fresh gloss paint on the frames and motion now gives it a smart appearance.<\/p>\n

\"FRFinally a painted and lined out wheel.<\/p>\n

\"RogerRoger came in on Friday and started the task of cleaning and painting the internal surface of the boiler cladding sheets.<\/p>\n

\"JohnJohn has been preparing some new wood to be inserted on top of the front buffer beam where previous area of oak had perished.<\/p>\n

\"FredFred has continued to work on cleaning up the smokebox and we have a rare photo here of him having a ten minute breather.<\/p>\n

Andy Booth is expected to have started today the task of expending the tubes and beading over the ends in the smokebox.<\/p>\n

\"JohnWork continues apace on Fluff<\/em> with John Davis drilling holes in the newly inserted steel stretcher plate between the frames.<\/p>\n

\"PhilPhil Bell has continued the task of drilling holes in one of the new cab sides.<\/p>\n

\"AdeAde has been testing the fit of the first of his newly fabricated axlebox covers for Caliban<\/em>. \"AdeFirst of all he hoisted a test axlebox into position before heading off to the bench with a file to start the process of modification!<\/p>\n

\"BillWe are glad to be able to report that Bill Norcross is back from sick leave and he is seen here setting up to drill some holes in a brass flange for Wootton Hall<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Newton came in on Friday to continue his work on the L&NWR seat from Preston station.<\/p>\n

Finally, we have news from Charles Adams at Embsay that the machining of Cumbria<\/em>‘s main and pilot valves is almost complete along with the lapping in of the ‘J’ pipe face.<\/p>\n

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