{"id":1433,"date":"2019-09-16T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2019-09-16T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:30:45","slug":"monday-16th-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"Monday 16th September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1428\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115351A-e1568633240180-625x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alan with one of Caliban's bearings\" width=\"625\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115351A-e1568633240180-625x1024.jpg 625w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115351A-e1568633240180-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115351A-e1568633240180-768x1259.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115351A-e1568633240180-1200x1968.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/>More good progress was made with <em>Caliban<\/em> last Wednesday with Alan tackling the job of scraping in the newly re-metalled bearings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1429\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_161418A-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ade testing the fit of one of Caliban's spring support pins\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_161418A-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_161418A-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_161418A-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_161418A-1200x2133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>With the vision of the locomotive being lowered back on to its wheels in the not too distant future, Ade was checking the spring support pins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1430\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115409-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"One of Caliban's newly lined-out wheels\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115409-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115409-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115409-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_115409-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Also achieved last Wednesday, in good time before the lowering of the loco, was the lining out of <em>Caliban<\/em>&#8216;s wheels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1431\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_124145-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20's frames make a rare appearance outside the shed\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_124145-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_124145-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_124145-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_124145-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>As forecast in last week&#8217;s blog, Ade conducted a shunt which enabled <em>Fluff<\/em> and FR 20, complete with tender, to be positioned on road three of the heated section of the FRT shed in readiness for the winter work programme. Fortunately it was possible to do the shunt whilst the rain held off and FR 20&#8217;s frames made a rare appearance out in the open.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1432\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_131259-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"New line up in the shed\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_131259-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_131259-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_131259-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190911_131259-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>The new line up in the shed is seen here.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Bell, Fred and Roger soon got to grips on Friday with the task of cleaning up FR 20&#8217;s tender frames and brake gear.<\/p>\n<p>5643 has been in operation at Embsay but unfortunately suffered a leaking mudhole gasket on Saturday. After a number of &#8216;phone calls and texts, fresh lead mudhole joints were supplied on Saturday evening from Tim&#8217;s strategic store in his garage. Mrs O was extremely surprised that the lead rings were found by Tim in a matter seconds whereas the more normal search for bicycle pumps, inner tubes and helmets always takes many times longer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More good progress was made with Caliban last Wednesday with Alan tackling the job of scraping in the newly re-metalled bearings. With the vision of the locomotive being lowered back on to its wheels in the not too distant future, Ade was checking the spring support pins. Also achieved last Wednesday, in good time before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 16th September 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-1433","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\/1433","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=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}