{"id":1994,"date":"2021-01-04T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2021-01-04T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:56","slug":"monday-4th-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"Monday 4th January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first blog of 2021. We wish our readers a Happy New Year and hope that you all stay safe in these difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty of activity in the FRT shed at Preston over the Christmas period. The following photos show activity on Wednesday, 23rd December.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1983\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_111757A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon completes the fitting of the boiler crinolines on FR 20\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_111757A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_111757A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_111757A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>John Dixon completed refitting the crinolines on FR 20&#8217;s boiler.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1984\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133944-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Tatham sanding FR 20's boiler cladding\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133944-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133944-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133944-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133944-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1986\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_142048A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Owen at work on FR 20's boiler cladding\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_142048A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_142048A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_142048A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Ed and Tim busied themselves sanding the boiler cladding sheets. Fred then\u00a0 completed the firebox sheets the following Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1987\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133759-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ade working on Caliban's brake rods\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133759-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133759-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133759-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133759-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Ade was working on <em>Caliban<\/em>&#8216;s brake rods.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1988\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133938-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Newton and John Davis working on Fluff\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133938-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133938-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133938-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133938-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Paul Newton and John Davis continued their work on <em>Fluff<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1989\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133856A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Keith working on Wootton Hall's tender brake cylinder\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133856A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133856A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201223_133856A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Keith was working on <em>Wootton Hall<\/em>&#8216;s tender vacuum cylinder.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there is good news in that the latest edition of <em>The Iron Horse<\/em> has been proof read and is back with the printer to produce the magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first blog of 2021. We wish our readers a Happy New Year and hope that you all stay safe in these difficult times. There was plenty of activity in the FRT shed at Preston over the Christmas period. The following photos show activity on Wednesday, 23rd December. John Dixon completed refitting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 4th January 2021<\/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-1994","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\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}