{"id":1760,"date":"2020-07-06T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:12:47","slug":"monday-6th-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Monday 6th July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s this? Two blogs within the space of 14 days? Well something must be happening!<\/p>\n<p>First of all we can reveal that the Trust&#8217;s former GWR 0-6-2 tank locomotive No. 5643 is now due to return to Preston from Embsay around the 14th July. A preparatory shunt of the FRT shed at Preston was due to take place today, Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, we are sorry to hear that Roger Benbow has recently had a spell in main works, Furness General Hospital at Barrow. Happily Roger is now home and making a good recovery we hear. Best wishes to you, Roger, from us all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1758\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_104409_r1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ade with his lockdown hair\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_104409_r1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_104409_r1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_104409_r1-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Back to the good news, Ade, John Dixon, Tim and Keith re-united at Preston last Wednesday after a gap of three and a half months. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1759\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_112837_r1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Keith also overdue a haircut\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_112837_r1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_112837_r1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_112837_r1-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Tim had brought down with him various boxes containing PPE, hand gel, adhesive tape and floor paint. The plan was to lay markers at 2 metres distance in both the RSR and FRT sheds. It was decided to practice with the FRT shed where Ade (sporting a 100 day isolation hair style) hoovered the floor.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1754\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120432A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ade hoovering the floor\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120432A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120432A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120432A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The floor was then cleaned with white spirit before John applied adhesive black\/yellow tape.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1755\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120608A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon laying adhesive tape\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120608A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120608A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_120608A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the tape didn&#8217;t like the concrete floor so Plan B was invoked. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1756 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_141247-AtA-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tim with yellow paint\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_141247-AtA-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_141247-AtA-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_141247-AtA-768x1580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_141247-AtA-1200x2469.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_141247-AtA.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/>Once the time consuming option of masking tape had been ditched, John made up a wooden stencil to enable Tim to apply some yellow marking paint, which appeared to do the trick.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1757\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_150052A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Floor markings in place\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_150052A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_150052A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200702_150052A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that we have the technology it is hoped to make rather more progress this week. Once this is achieved, and signage and hand sanitisers are mounted, we will be well on the way to re-opening the workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s this? Two blogs within the space of 14 days? Well something must be happening! First of all we can reveal that the Trust&#8217;s former GWR 0-6-2 tank locomotive No. 5643 is now due to return to Preston from Embsay around the 14th July. A preparatory shunt of the FRT shed at Preston was due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 6th July 2020<\/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-1760","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\/1760","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=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}