{"id":1843,"date":"2020-09-21T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2020-09-21T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:21:10","slug":"monday-21st-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"Monday 21st September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1835\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_143147-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ade getting up pressure on FR 20's boiler\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_143147-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_143147-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_143147-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_143147-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Alan and Ade conducted a further hydraulic test on FR 20&#8217;s boiler on Wednesday after successfully making a new dome cover joint last week and Ade can be seen here working up some pressure. A formal test for the boiler surveyor has been booked for the 12th October.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1836\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140252-e1600719517827-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon with his die nut\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140252-e1600719517827-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140252-e1600719517827-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140252-e1600719517827-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>John Dixon finished finding or making the new studs for FR 20&#8217;s steam and blast pipes and had them fitted on Wednesday. He is seen here applying a die nut to one of the studs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1837\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_134834A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew and John Dixon fit one of FR 20's new springs\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_134834A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_134834A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_134834A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Friday saw young Matthew join the gang having started a fabrication and welding course at college. He was quickly put to good use operating the hoist to lift one of the new engine springs into position for another test fit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1838\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140441-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Keith removes a valve cover on 5643\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140441-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140441-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140441-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200916_140441-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Keith has removed 5643&#8217;s valve and cylinder covers as he starts the valve and piston examination.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1839\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_163235-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"5643's valves and pistons exposed\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_163235-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_163235-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_163235-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_163235-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1840\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_143608A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Fred painting some of 5643's cab floor metalwork\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_143608A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_143608A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200918_143608A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Finally, Fred was with us on Friday to continue his work cleaning up and painting the cab floor metalwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan and Ade conducted a further hydraulic test on FR 20&#8217;s boiler on Wednesday after successfully making a new dome cover joint last week and Ade can be seen here working up some pressure. A formal test for the boiler surveyor has been booked for the 12th October. John Dixon finished finding or making the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 21st September 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-1843","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\/1843","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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}