{"id":2519,"date":"2022-03-28T21:12:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2022-03-28T21:12:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:12:15","slug":"monday-28th-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Monday 28th March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately the blog team has been hit by Covid this week, so we have a reduced service operating at this time (does that remind you of a big railway?!).<\/p>\n<p>Keith picked up the refurbished valves for 5643 from Tyseley last Monday and Duncan has been machining the spindle bearings to suit the new spindle sizes. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2515 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9359-e1648498054909-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Newly re-fitted splasher on 5643\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9359-e1648498054909-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9359-e1648498054909-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9359-e1648498054909-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>A working party was convened at Bury last Tuesday when one of the splashers was re-fitted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2517\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9377SM-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 getting some coal\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9377SM-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9377SM-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_9377SM-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Last Wednesday and Friday were spent in getting FR 20 ready (including coaling up) for the RSR&#8217;s Spring Steam Gala at the weekend. FRT volunteers also spent time giving the RSR&#8217;s Museum a much needed spring clean in readiness for the start of the new season. Thanks go to all those who assisted in making the weekend a success.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2516\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sam-Middleton-1024x768.png\" alt=\"A spotless FR 20 ready for the Gala\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sam-Middleton-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sam-Middleton-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sam-Middleton-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>We have a photo here of a spotless FR 20 taken by Sam.<\/p>\n<p>For those unable to be at Preston over the weekend, the following video gives an impressive view of proceedings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SAiRPTTsK_c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately the blog team has been hit by Covid this week, so we have a reduced service operating at this time (does that remind you of a big railway?!). Keith picked up the refurbished valves for 5643 from Tyseley last Monday and Duncan has been machining the spindle bearings to suit the new spindle sizes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 28th March 2022<\/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-2519","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\/2519","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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}