{"id":1878,"date":"2020-10-19T20:40:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2020-10-19T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:40:45","slug":"monday-19th-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Monday 19th October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The welcome news that FR 20 had passed its hydraulic test has turned thoughts as to the practicalities of conducting a steam test out of the frames. It is hoped that the boiler will be shunted around to the RSR running shed sometime this week in exchange for a brake van. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1871\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_115921-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ade with the 4WD fork lift\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_115921-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_115921-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_115921-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_115921-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>This is all subject to the availability of Ade who is assisting Ribble Rail this week. Ade is pictured here trying his hand last week with the RSR&#8217;s recently acquired four wheel drive fork truck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1872\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_123208A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John re-fitting FR 20's smokebox lamp bracket\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_123208A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_123208A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_123208A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Work has continued on some of the smaller jobs on FR 20. Tim has finished painting the modified spring hangers and has also done some careful refurbishment and priming of the tender buffer beam so as to retain appropriate signs of age and work use. \u00a0John Dixon has straightened up the smokebox lamp bracket.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1873\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_140633A-1024x705.jpg\" alt=\"John painting the bottom of FR 20's ashpan\" width=\"840\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_140633A-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_140633A-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_140633A-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_140633A-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>John then set about giving the bottom of the ashpan a much-needed clean and paint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1874\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_111619-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Keith cutting yet more metal from Wootton Hall's tender tank\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_111619-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_111619-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_111619-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_111619-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Keith has taken advantage of some better weather to cut some more metal from <em>Wootton Hall<\/em>&#8216;s tender tank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1875\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_150810-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Bell and John Davis painting more new steelwork for Fluff\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_150810-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_150810-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_150810-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201014_150810-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Paul Balshaw has continued buffing up 5643&#8217;s rods whilst Phil and John Davis have been busy painting new steelwork for<em> Fluff<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1876\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_153416-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Newton painting the bench seat slats\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_153416-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_153416-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_153416-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201016_153416-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Finally, Paul Newton has at last managed to put some gloss paint on the slats for the formerly derelict platform seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The welcome news that FR 20 had passed its hydraulic test has turned thoughts as to the practicalities of conducting a steam test out of the frames. It is hoped that the boiler will be shunted around to the RSR running shed sometime this week in exchange for a brake van. This is all subject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 19th October 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-1878","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\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}