{"id":2130,"date":"2021-06-15T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2021-06-15T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:20:28","slug":"tuesday-15th-june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 15th June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies &#8211; we are a day late this week! Yes, it has been necessary to put in an extra day at Preston with Furness Railway No. 20 this week so the blog deadline was missed. The reason for cracking on with the finishing stages of the overhaul of FR 20 is that there are plans afoot for it to appear at the Barrow Festival of Transport on Saturday, 17th July, as part of the Furness 175 celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2123\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_135307-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon, Alan, Ron and Ade wrestle with FR 20's vacuum pipe\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_135307-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_135307-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_135307-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_135307-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Last Wednesday saw some progress on re-fitting the engine&#8217;s vacuum pipe which, for some reason, is proving to be a challenge. John Dixon, Alan, Ron and Ade are seen here wrestling with the recalcitrant pipework.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2124\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_150026A-1024x920.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 with partly painted cab sides\" width=\"840\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_150026A-1024x920.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_150026A-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_150026A-768x690.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_150026A-1200x1078.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>The cab sides have now received coats of primer and undercoat as part of the push to complete the paintwork.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2125\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120545A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Keith grinding Wootton Hall's repaired tender pipework\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120545A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120545A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120545A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Work has also continued on <em>Wootton Hall<\/em>&#8216;s tender where Fred has been cleaning up the\u00a0 vacuum pipework and Keith has been welding up and grinding off any suspicious areas of metalwork.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2126\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120554A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Fred taking a well earned break - where's my Sopwith Camel gone?\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120554A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120554A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120554A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Fred is seen here taking a well earned break &#8211; he will be glad to know that the next box of cup wire brushes has arrived!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2127\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120614A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sam cleaning Wootton Hall's tender brake linkage\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120614A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120614A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210611_120614A-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>Sam was kept busy on Friday cleaning and piecing together the tender brake linkage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2128 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_145933-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Sam and Jack Davenport (no not THAT Jack Davenport) fitting Wootton Hall's tender brake linkage\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_145933-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_145933-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_145933-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210612_145933-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Sam was so enthused by the task that he appeared again on Saturday to fit the linkage with a helping hand from RSR&#8217;s new recruit, Jack Davenport.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere the <em>Fluff<\/em> gang has been making good progress and Ade is awaiting a suitable opportunity to split <em>Caliban<\/em>&#8216;s smokebox from its boiler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies &#8211; we are a day late this week! Yes, it has been necessary to put in an extra day at Preston with Furness Railway No. 20 this week so the blog deadline was missed. The reason for cracking on with the finishing stages of the overhaul of FR 20 is that there are plans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 15th June 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-2130","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\/2130","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=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}